The line is part of the future 2100-km long Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, while the Beijing-Shijiazhuang and Shijiazhuang-Wuhan sections are still under construction and expected to be opened in 2012.
The first commercial trains left Wuhan and Guangzhou North at 9:00 am on December 26, 2009, and reached their destinations in three hours, compared with ten and a half hours for the previous service.[4][5]
From December 28, 2009,[note 1] until Guangzhou South Station is opened in late January 2010, 28 passenger train services run on the line daily each way. Of these 28 trains, two run between Wuhan and Changsha South, five run between Changsha South and Guangzhou North, and 21 run between Wuhan and Guangzhou North.
Two of the 21 trains are nonstop, covering the 922-km long journey in a scheduled 02h57m (Southbound) or 02h58m (Northbound).[note 2] This is an average speed of 313 kilometres per hour (194 mph) between stations.[citation needed]
Before this line was opened, the fastest commercial train service between stations was the train run between Lorraine TGV and Champagne TGV in France, averaging 279 kilometres per hour (173 mph).[6]
According to Xu Fangliang, the average speeds of high-speed railways in other countries are 243 kilometres per hour (151 mph) in Japan, 232 kilometres per hour (144 mph) in Germany and 277 kilometres per hour (172 mph) in France.
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