Trial runs of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway to begin

BEIJING - The long anticipated Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will start a one-month trial operation on Wednesday, before its formal launch in late June, a railway official said.

The railway authority has also decided that the fastest train service between the two mega-cities will make an extra stop, according to an official with the transport bureau under the Ministry of Railways, who requested to remain anonymous.

"The train will stop at Nanjing (capital of Jiangsu province), because of the distance (1,318 km)," he said on Tuesday.