2026年暑期铁路运输自7月1日启动，至7月31日已累计发送旅客4.32亿人次[1]。为满足暑期客运需求，全国铁路采取了多项措施增加运力投放，包括优化列车运行图、加开列车和动车组重联[1]。其中，国铁广州局累计发送旅客5892.5万人次，国铁北京局累计发送旅客3877.4万人次[1]。
暑运期间，多条新线路投入运营，进一步提升了路网覆盖和运输能力[1]。武汉至西安高铁西安东至十堰东段、金华至建德高铁兰溪至建德段、北京市郊铁路城市副中心线北京西至良乡段等相继开通[1]。其中，西十高铁7月累计运送旅客233万人次[1]。
China's national railways transported a cumulative 432 million passengers from July 1 to July 31, marking the midpoint of the peak summer travel period [1]. To accommodate the surge in demand, several new rail lines began operations during this timeframe, including the Wuhan-Xi'an high-speed rail segment from Xi'an East to Shiyan East, the Jinhua-Jiande high-speed rail section from Lanxi to Jiande, and the Beijing municipal suburban railway's City Sub-center Line extension from Beijing West to Liangshan [1]. These infrastructure additions enhanced both network coverage and transport capacity across the country [1].
Railway operators deployed multiple strategies to increase capacity on heavily traveled routes, including optimizing train schedules, adding extra trains and train sets, and operating double-formation high-speed rail units [1]. The Xi-Shi high-speed railway alone carried 2.33 million passengers in July [1], while China State Railway Beijing Bureau transported 38.774 million passengers and Guangzhou Bureau handled 58.925 million passengers during the same period [1].