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BEIJING – The melodic cadence of Cantonese was ringing throughout Waiting Hall 13 of the Beijing West Railway Station on the evening of June 21 as passengers waited to board the new sleeper train to Hong Kong.
Train services from Hong Kong to Beijing and Shanghai, which were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, resumed on June 15 with sleeper trains introduced to the Special Administrative Region (SAR).
It brings Hong Kong in line with mainland China, where sleeper trains are a common and popular way to travel between…