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Will spring train tickets be hard to buy in 2019? What's the change of Spring Festival this year?

With only the last month left for the Spring Festival in 2019, college students have begun to rush home in winter vacation, and the day of ticket snatching for the Spring Festival transportation is coming. On December 23, you can buy train and bus tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival (January 21, 2019).

Pay attention to the ticket purchase schedule of Spring Festival 2019

The Spring Festival of 2019 starts on January 21, 2019 (December 16) and ends on March 1, 2019 (January 25).

At the end of this month, the tickets for the train returning home before the Spring Festival will be robbed. The little friends who want to rob the tickets to go home should remember several time points.

On the 23rd of this month, train tickets for the first day of the Spring Festival (January 21, 2019) can be purchased.

On January 5, 2019, you can buy the train ticket of February 3, 2019.

On January 6, 2019, train tickets for new year's Eve 2019 (February 4) can be purchased.

On January 7, 2019, train tickets for the 2019 Spring Festival (February 5) can be purchased.

On January 12, 2019, train tickets for the first six days of January 2019 (February 10) can be purchased.

On January 30, 2019, you can buy train tickets for the last day of the Spring Festival, March 1, 2019.

What's the change of Spring Festival this year?

During the Spring Festival, 12306 prepaid train tickets can be purchased and refunded automatically.

It has become a heart disease for many people whether they can get the train ticket to go home. Now there's good news! According to media reports, Shan Xinghua, a technical leader in the research and development of China railway ticket sales and reservation system, revealed that her and her team's alternate ticket purchasing function will go online during the Spring Festival 2019, when the situation of ticket grabbing will be alleviated again.

What is the standby ticket purchase function? The so-called standby ticket purchase, in short, when the train ticket is sold out, passengers can register the ticket purchase information on 12306 platform and pay for the advance ticket funds. If there are refunds and surplus tickets, 12306 system will automatically seize the tickets. According to the estimation of experts, this method has obvious advantages over the software of ticket grabbing on the market, no matter the speed, success rate or security of ticket purchasing.

Pay attention to the ticket release time

From November 28, 2014, the railway department will adjust the starting time of Internet and telephone ticket booking. The ticket release time is adjusted from 16 to 21, i.e. from 8:00 to 18:00, new tickets are available for sale at every full time and half time. Meanwhile, C, D and G trains are no longer sold separately, and the starting time is consistent with that of the station. Therefore, please go to 12306 official website in advance to check the time period when you take the station to release tickets.

How is the ticket pre-sale period regulated?

At present, the pre-sale period of online tickets and telephone tickets is 30 days before departure, while that of station ticket window, railway ticket agency and self-service ticket machine is 28 days before departure. The days of the pre-sale period include the day. Railway bureaus may temporarily adjust the pre-sale period, please pay attention to the station announcement.