Zhang Dehua, waiting for his son at Kaili station, had called him a couple of days ago but hadn't heard of him since.
"I was hoping he would be on that train but I don't think he was," he said forlornly. "I will just have to wait for the next one and maybe the next one."
At noon yesterday, service at two railway stations in Guangzhou was back to normal after 11 days of chaos, the Guangzhou Railway Group Corp said.
About 350,000 train passengers left Beijing on Monday, 20,000 more than on Sunday, a Beijing Railway Bureau spokesman said.
The China Meteorological Administration said on Monday the weather was the coldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces but it expected milder conditions ahead.
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