Taking trains

I often take trains since I left my parents’ home to go to university living in another city. I take took [habitual actions always described in present tense] a train home in every winter and summer vocations vacations and also some other holidays. If the trip takes less than 5 hours, I choose taking trains instead of airplanes or shuttle buses because it’s cheaper and fast enough. But there are also some annoying problems about taking trains.

Before 2011, we can could only buy train tickets at the train stations or  through railway ticket agencies. It was always very crowded at in the railway stations. You had have to spend a lot of time standing to stand in a queue for the ticket. wait.  When its your turn finally get , turns out the ticket of the train you wanted to board take is sold out. But since 2011, we can buy tickets on the internet, which is very convenientce. If you buy tickets online and you[wanted to cancel it] haven’t picked up your ticket, you can also get a refund or change your ticket online.

Even though you've got get your ticket, if you want to get into the railway station, you still need to bringing your ID card, with you, and also all your luggage need to pass the security check before boarding the train. Finally you arrive at the waiting room, you can could find some place to sit have a seat or just stand in the queue waiting to for boarding. In the past, people only got to check their tickets by manual ways. Now as many automatic checking machines have been are set up,so that tickets could be checked automatically, which would save a lot of time and workload.

We have many different types trains in China like G-series high-speed train, D-series high-speed train also called CRH (stands for China Railway High-speed) train and Z-series non-stop train etc. I usually take G-series high-speed train, which is a little bit more expensive but much faster than others.