The Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway, or the Shitai passenger railway is a 190 km high-speed railway operated by China Railway High-speed, running from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan, respectively the provincial capitals of Hebei and Shanxi, at 250 km/h. The railway opened on April 1, 2009. It now forms part of the Qingdao–Yinchuan corridor. The railway crosses the Taihang mountain range through the Taihang Tunnel, which, at almost 28 km long, is the longest railway tunnel in China.

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The Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway is used by G- and D-series high-speed trains. Initially, they mostly ran between Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang. With the opening of the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway, which runs through Shijiazhuang, in December 2012, almost all of these trains have been extended beyond Shijiazhuang; most of them now continue north to Beijing, while some go south, to Wuhan, Guangzhou, and other points along the line.