Since yesterday, citizens could book the first batch of train tickets of the Spring Festival period through searching the website 12306 or dialing the phone number 95105105. Yichangdong Railway Station and each ticket agency will begin to sell the first batch of tickets of the Spring Festival Travel period on January 9th.

　　It is reported that the 2013 Spring Festival Travel period will last 40 days from January 26th to March 6th. At present, the tickets with head letters “D” and “G” of train number can be booked 20 days in advance from 11:00 A.M. at Yichangdong Railway Station; other tickets are pre-sold 18 days in advanced from 8:30 A.M.. That is to say, if passengers want to buy round-trip tickets, they have to wait until January 9th. The stuff at the station said that at present the average volume of passenger conveyance amounts to16, 000 a day at Yichangdong Railway Station. Tickets are mainly sold for the bullet trains that run in Hubei Province and the trains to Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.

　　Meanwhile, in order to organize the transportation of the students well during the 2013 Spring Festival Travel Period, the station will keep on offering students the maximum convenience to buy the round-trip tickets. Students can book hard seat online before March 3rd, 2013.

　　Thus, the reporter simulates to book tickets by phone or online and finds both ways are unimpeded. With the approaching of the Spring Festival Travel Period, ticket-booking peak will appear. To avoid being unable to book tickets because of congestion online, passengers can avoid internet peak or use the internet or telephone to book tickets ahead of time.

　　At the beginning of the New Year, the information from the Ministry of Railways shows that the presale period of the national railway internet and telephone booking system is prolonged from 12 days to 20 days. From the 7th of January, passengers can book the 26th tickets by phone or online.

　　Wang Hua, a reporter of the Ministry of Railways, suggests passengers should make a preferential choice of booking tickets by phone or online, of which the presale period is superior to that of booking from tickets sale windows of the railway station. The reporter also says that if the internet and the telephone system show the tickets are sold out, passengers should adjust the travel time and way in time, instead of blindly going to the ticket office which will be just a rolling of dice, although the present presale booking at the agency and the station is advanced to 18 days as well.