Closing out the first day of #Chunyun with a High Speed service at the double-decker Beijing Fengtai railway station. The rest will be a little fragmented, but here’s what I found of particular note…

Yangquan, Shanxi! (山西阳泉) My #Chunyun 1st Day Trip continues… Yangquan North is its HSR hub. Built in 2009 at a time when HSR was merely been established, local authorities didn’t know what they expected — so they had the rails “dump” the station 40 km out of town. 😂 #BADIDEA Now they’ve had to add…

Rock. Home. Village. That’s literally what the Chinese characters for Shijiazhuang — 石家庄 — actually means. This place used to be a total nothingburger. Two rail lines crossed paths. The rest is history. My first #Chunyun city for 2026 — Shijiazhuang. And the main station.

We’re getting started big time with #Chunyun — the peak travel season around Lunar New Year — and again, well over half a billion passenger journeys expected over the next 40 days starting from today. HERE, you get the whole dead (so don’t bother with the “OTHER” platform). 🤣

It's time for a podcast done right — in the 5G era, visually! David + Train + Mic, you know me for all three, and that's the name of my own podcast about the world of Trains. Anything from development + policy to some epic journeys. My views, my commentary... all onboard! youtu.be/dwt7GmwNt9I

Going from one city to the other in Central China — Zhengzhou 郑州 (provincial capital of He’nan, population c.10.3 million metro) to Xuchang 许昌 (population c.1.952 million metro) — by metro. Taking the Zhengzhou-Xuchang/Zhengxu line of the Zhengzhou Metro.

China is an enormous country where there is still a lot of physical place for solar and wind. It can do it! Just that local bureaucrats must wake up and face the music. The era of farting CO2 a la coal and stuff is OVER. Also, time to repurpose that coal railway so passengers can use it as well!

When was the last time you entered or left the USA — by Train? We did it this past summer — Amtrak Cascades from Seattle to Vancouver. Train delayed — but we had great seating and real good views!…

Trains action at Zhengzhou main station… do you see the High Speed train in the back in motion?… at the Clapham Junction or Olten of China…

Beijing Subway now has 100 interchange stations — including two under a temporary “exit + interchange” arrangement. Dahongmen opened up in full on 08 November 2025 — a key crossover between a major north-south route and the city’s busiest ring line. (Until then, it opened for Line 10 only.)

That window/seat/table alignment (especially on the upper level)… (PS: compare that with a Stadler trainset…)

VIA Rail needs to start selling Montréal Central to Dorval tickets. Come on. No excuses. In Switzerland, the airport station is RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE AIRPORT — PLUS there is a train every ***10*** minutes!

Something I found in New York earlier this year. 😂🤣😂🤣 Goes double to those demented dotards who wish to prop up felons, war criminals, and con men. You guys here on Bluesky are getting the FULL David Feng Trains. 😃

Given the ideological tendencies… On “that other” network, I’m going to share less. Probably only the stuff people know me for. China Trains, plus microphones with enormous foam covers. 😂🤣😂🤣 This network? Everything, and everything else. If you have someone sane to keep things in control, it’s good!

Beijing is getting an all-new Line 18 soon… This line, for now, adds metro links in northern Beijing’s suburbs, but a few years from now, following line reconfiguration, will offer a direct link to the city centre.

Been quite busy on YouTube as of late — including a Big Kahuna clip about ALL 29 LINES (!!!) across the 879 km Beijing Subway network… 11 minutes to keep you informed. Including trams and even a Maglev line!… m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioe_... Spot my big mic BTW 🤣 @wrzlbrnft.bsky.social

David Feng did Trains in the US this past summer. The rest, I guess, is history? 😂🤣 #TrainsNotPlanes

Back on Bluesky… have had some handle errors as of late — but am now back, bugs squished. I don’t do full live Train trip tweets on “that other network” so you guys are in luck here on Bluesky! Also will be exploring more YouTube and Substack… for multimedia + Trains content…

Updates across all social media suspended indefinitely due to an incident involving a heavy knife cut whilst cleaning up the kitchen.

Up next… content about Trains in and around Zhengzhou. This being the Clapham Junction of the Chinese railways it is not easy to decide which one to do!… as there are so many of them. So, will start with two short intercity lines — Central Zhengzhou to Xinzheng Airport, and Zhengzhou to Kaifeng.

China has begun pre service trials for the worlds fastest high speed train. The CR450 reached a top speed of 453 kilometers per hour (281mph) and is set to enter commercial operation next year. The country is on track to reach 50,000km of HSR this year. enapp.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/21/...

I am (almost) not shitting you guys… if I haven’t been to Beijing South railway station a thousand times, then at least hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times since Day 1 of it in HSR mode. Quite a few things have changed, in the meantime… youtu.be/CA64z7N4i2s

Genes are for real, folks. Today just found out David Feng Jr did a 44ish minute mobile video recording (on a device I gave him) from a recent rail journey. Yes. At age 6. Railway journey videos. It happens in the family, and it is happening very well!!…

Long Covid, for those who have it, is genuinely debilitating. I’ve been to many medical practitioners and it’s clear I have it. It varies between serious and almost “not a thing” on different days, sometimes with little explanation why, and frustrating, of course, it certainly is (perplexing, too!)…

Today — unfortunately — a device with 2 TB of crucial data, including lots of rail / languages files and clips — had a head crash, and content is deemed lost…

Pictures of some #Amtrak 🇺🇸 #NextGen #Acela design elements and features. A nice train. And today’s crew on the #2250 8:35 AM service from DC to NYC, cafe car attendant, conductor, ticket inspectors, housekeepers and the engineer were just wonderful. 🤗 @amtrak.com

In the last 10 years Swiss glaciers lost a quarter of their ice volume The warming is accelerating! From now on, I publish my articles in English as well Free accessible. The only thing I ask is a push on the repost button (the donation button is ❤️) reportersonline.eu/2025-another...

The fast warming is also having severe consequences for high speed rail. Extreme rainfall is replacing snowfall in much of the Alps, causing landslides. And the landslides destroy rail infrastructure at the very time we need to switch from flying to using the train for holiday trips.

Can’t wait to resume anal tests for visitors coming on Teslas. I mean, hey, you did this to yourselves…

David Feng’s scheming indoctrination efforts, involving his world-famous commentary on trains and enormous, thick, super-squishy microphone foam covers, is working very well on “the dark side”. 😂🤣

Also interesting: Boston’s new “T” trains are from CRRC, a rail megacompany from China. Although I will miss the current rolling stock. Its rubber strip on the doors was delightfully thick — not posing a finger trap hazard. Sometimes UE/UI needs to be sorted too…

Here's the deal, SNCF workers SNCF exists to transport passengers. It does not exist - primarily! - to keep you in work france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/se... If you want to make the case against régions giving contracts to others, BE BETTER jonworth.eu/connecting-t...

AND: www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

Three tones that are as "public transport trademark" as Montréal's doo-doo-doooo in the Métro... @rmtransit.bsky.social And when you hear the Swiss PostBus horn sound, especially — please, give way!

#Switzerland strives, + succeeds, in making life without cars possible. Not only possible, but preferable. You can reach most remote locations by train + bus. Transit is what keeps villages + rural economy alive. More on how it works in this HIGH SPEED dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/which-countr...

Apparently @andybtravels.bsky.social actually found a BIG SECRET onboard the China Railway train from Hà Nội Gia Lam to Namzningz/Nanning, and it had something to do with what you hear at the other end of the microphone with that enormous foam cover, folks. 😂

36 Days Around the World with Trains (A Preview) — we did this for summer 2025! Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas. 🇷🇸🇨🇭🇫🇷🇪🇸🇲🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇰🇨🇳 + 🇧🇦🇱🇮🇩🇪🇦🇹🇬🇮 ... A preview of the round-the-world trip our family did; many more clips to come. Especially here on Bluesky (more trains, less crazies). 😛 youtu.be/uecexmh8kxg

Somehow it's not as enormous as you think. 😂 @stilgherrian.com #microphonefoamcover #trainsvideos

Canada's HSR project — build it so you can make... Orange Man Country further south feel bad...? Polit aside, just fizzwacking build it!!...

40'000+ km completed on national railways for JUST the mainland of China for 2025… beating the 2019 record which just stopped short of 40K… this year, finally beat that!

The newest project my end is #MiddleMiddleKingdom — taking a look at the middle of China through two routes — starting from an east-west band via Zhengzhou and Xi‘an (mostly rail but also some of the road network) — another north-south one coming soon! Details » middlemiddlekingdom.com

Modern trams? I saw just Swiss and Tatra ones in the city centre (away from the Sava) last month…

I have descended upon Washington… but it’s Washington State, not so much the District of Columbia… Specifically, the city of Seattle. And in particular, its tram system… #NonstopTrains

A bit more Trains in New York. Of course we return back to the epic legendary Grand Central for a bit of Metro-North… #NonstopTrains

Beijing kind of clean yes but if you want GENUINE cleanliness, I dunno. Maybe try Switzerland?

Coming up… more Trains in New York. Including Metro-North and, hey, why not the New York Subway? For those who think it is as “dangerous” as if it was populated by Dracula about to bite your head off, that shit is so crazy fake, it’s like it’s fake news from another planet, really! #NonstopTrains

It's a truism that while passenger rail is generally better in Europe, freight rail is more effective in North America. However, it often goes unnoticed that Europe is making a significant effort to catch up. Italy, for example, is investing a a lot into making room for heavier and longer trains

When people add “national rail” to “United States”, many say it’s a national embarrassment — dreadful — or a total horror thing. Let’s see how it actually went today our end! Boston South… #NonstopTrains

An enstablished #jerkbird population South Boston-ish… 😂 @stilgherrian.com

Arrived USA. Border checks not a problem. What I was fearful of, though, was being threatened with moose on the interstate highway. 😂😂😂