Fudan doctor bought 8 tickets to "go home in a curved way" and saved 13 hours

Fudan doctor bought 8 tickets to "go home in a curved way" and saved 13 hours. The Spring Festival Transport is a struggle, not only competing for physical strength and financial resources, but also for wisdom. Studying in Shanghai...

It took 8 tickets and 7 train transfers to get home. What did he think?

Transferring instead of going direct can actually save 13 hours

From Shanghai to Deyang, Sichuan, spanning more than half of China, how do you get home this time? , let’s first take a look at the routes of “Transfer Master”: Shanghai Hongqiao Nanjing South; Nanjing South (Hubei) Macheng North; Macheng North Hankou; Hankou Jingzhou; Jingzhou Yichang East; Yichang East (Sichuan) Dazhou; Dazhou Chengdu East; Chengdu Deyang. After all this hassle, I bought a total of 8 tickets and had to transfer 7 times. Xiao Wang, who designed this route, is a 27-year-old young man who is studying for a doctorate at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Generally, from Shanghai to Sichuan, most people will choose to take the direct train from Shanghai to Chengdu. Why did Xiao Wang choose to transfer to the "curve home" multiple times? He told reporters that he was actually a "foodie" and wanted to buy a duck neck in Wuhan, but he didn't expect that it would end up like this. Plus this route looks cumbersome but is actually faster. "In the past, there were only trains starting with 'K' from Shanghai to Chengdu, and one trip took more than 30 hours. This year, a new direct express train started with 'Z' was opened, but it also took 29 hours. Although I changed trains 7 times on this route, I only spent 17 hours on the bus. About an hour. "

According to the train ticket posted by Xiao Wang, he will depart from Shanghai at 1:30 pm on February 8 and arrive in Chengdu at around 10 am the next day, saving a total of 13 hours on the road. When Xiao Wang returned to his hometown in Deyang, it happened to be noon on New Year's Eve. The 8 tickets purchased along the way cost a total of 640 yuan, which is more than 100 yuan more expensive than the traditional route of "Shanghai to Chengdu; Chengdu to Deyang". However, on the Spring Festival transportation road, every inch of time is worth every inch of money. In Xiao Wang's words, "It is an extra 100 yuan spent in exchange for 13 hours."

Xiao Wang also said that it is difficult to buy a direct ticket to go home during the New Year, so it is much easier to buy tickets by changing trains. In recent years, he has changed trains to go home.

The more transfers there are, the greater the risk. Isn’t he afraid of delays?

He was very confident and used a professional website to check the probability of delays

On February 1 this year, Xiao Wang "posted" 8 train tickets on Weibo, attracting many netizens to watch. While netizens "worshiped" this transfer expert, they also raised many questions. In addition to the time and cost of "going home in a curve", the most frequently mentioned issue is the issue of ticket purchase and the risk of delays on this route. Some netizens believe that the more transfers there are, the higher the risk of delays.

Xiao Wang told reporters that when buying the ticket for "Nanjing Nanmacheng North", he specifically "sited" online. As soon as the ticket was released, he acted immediately and successfully obtained it. "In addition, the other seven tickets were relatively 'unpopular' and I bought them easily." As for the confusion about the "risk of delays", Xiao Wang said that in fact, 90% of trains are now not late. He also recommended a website made by a technical expert to collect train schedule data and analyze the delay probability of each train. "I will log in to this website before buying tickets. Along the way, I will choose routes with extremely low probability of delay."

About to embark on the journey home, Xiao Wang admitted that he was a little "excited". Since he had to go through five passenger trains to transfer home this time, he @these five passenger trains on Weibo, "Please bless", hoping that their trains would arrive on time and not delay his trip.

Long-distance love forced him to design a route

Xiao Wang revealed that he was studying in Shanghai and his girlfriend was in Fujian. Every time the two of them met, it would take a long time to take a direct train from Shanghai, and they would arrive at night. "In order for the two of us to meet as soon as possible, I began to study how to reduce the journey time by transferring." To this end, he would set off the night before, visiting Hangzhou, Jinhua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and sometimes even transfer to Jiangxi. Although it seemed troublesome, he was able to meet his girlfriend around noon the next day. Xiao Wang, who has tasted the "sweetness" of transferring, began to design his own route when he returned home for the Chinese New Year two years ago.