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Utilizing a computer-aided simulation approach, this work studies the impacts of different inter-stop transport distances on the transport efficiency evaluated by the transport time cost intensity of a typically composed Chinese freight train hauled by representative types of locomotives in view of different target speeds. It is found that the decelerated decrease of the transport time cost intensity with improving the target speed is much traded off by decreasing the stop-spacing especially below approximately 20.00 km. Moreover, the decrease of the inter-stop transport distance especially shorter than about 20.00 km obviously increases the transport time cost intensity in an accelerated way for the same target speed. Such a trend is more apparent when the target speed becomes relatively high. Therefore, it is suggested that the inter-stop transport distance of a freight train ought to be over 20.00 km for relatively high transport efficiency.