Classic route
Chengdu–Kunming Railway
Chengdu → Kunming · China
Chengdu–Kunming Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 915 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 7 h
- Average speed
- 131 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway Chengdu Group
- Train
- CR200J Fuxing & slow trains
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 1970
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The impossible mountain line of 1970: 427 tunnels and 991 bridges through the Daliangshan, where 5-yuan slow trains still double as the Yi villages’ market bus.
How this line was checked
- The 242 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 12939686 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 85.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 61 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: China Railway 12306 — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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