What are the advantages of railway transportation?

Railway transportation is the most important medium and long-distance tourism transportation mode in China, which has outstanding advantages such as large carrying capacity, strong transportation capacity, low freight rate, low long-distance transportation cost, strong long-distance continuous driving capacity and little influence by seasonal climate. As a tourist transportation mode, railway transportation is economical, safe and convenient, and tourists can enjoy the scenery along the train. The early train can also facilitate tourists to rest at night and get off during the day. Its disadvantages are high railway construction cost, long construction period, high short-distance cost and poor flexibility. Compared with other modes of transportation, its speed is lower than that of air transportation, its carrying capacity is lower than that of water transportation, and its flexibility is not as good as that of automobile transportation. Moreover, due to the obvious limitation of regional economic and geographical conditions, it is not convenient to build railways in mountainous areas with too complicated terrain. In recent years, in order to enhance the attraction of railway tourist traffic, China's railway departments have successively opened tourist special trains and high-speed railways, and adopted measures such as increasing the speed, increasing service items and reducing stops, which ensured the comfort of tourists during the journey and the punctuality of arriving at their destinations, and greatly improved the efficiency of railway tourist traffic.