Next Station: Eurasia - The Spoken Notebook Next Station: Eurasia

Spoken Notebook Page 3 - 01 December 2019

A rather sleepy but experience-rich David Feng — at wit's end after just a few hours' shut-eye — dangles a microphone in his left hand with the right supporting his now-rather-heavy head. But there's a few bit of rail tips before he makes the final doze-off... for the moment...

E-tickets have arrived on a few High Speed routes (especially in Eastern China) but the system is far from perfect for the uninitiated expat — for one reason, your blue ticket now is a reimbursement document only and you can't find your seat number on it!

Otherwise, a look at a very-well-futureproofed-in-the-future Beijing Daxing Railway Station, as well as a Binzhou station that's incredibly white... certainly in colour schemes...

Let's hope David doesn't miss his train connections later in the day!...

Spoken Notebook Page 2 - 28 November 2019

A super-early-in-the-morning-or-very-late-at-night mic session jotting down and going notes about things you may not have known about Stations 4-8: Beijing (Main), Beijing South, Daxing Airport, Beijing West, and Tianjin South, all stations in Northern China...

Did you know the tacky, infomercial-arts-ish "8 Gates" part of Beijing Railway Station was probably amongst the first-ever such elevated concourse in all of Mainland China? Or that there used to be signs to a Gate 25 at Beijing South? How about the sleek new Daxing Airport station with professional staff and advanced technology? The Euston of Beijing, but always slightly more improved, a la Beijing West station? And the mini city forest by the east exit of Tianjin South HSR + Metro station, which those in a hurry almost always miss out on?...

There's plenty more stations to come, very soon!

Spoken Notebook Page 1 - 22 November 2019

David launches Next Station: Eurasia as part of a "bigger and better" improvement over Next Station: China and breaks free from "just" railway stations in China to "any-rail" (national rail, metro, tram, light rail etc) stations across Eurasia.

He also briefs listeners about how he sees the first three stations he's visited — Harbin, Shangzhi South, and Acheng North, all in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang...