Night train route
Dunhuang Sleeper Y667/668
Lanzhou → Dunhuang · China
Dunhuang Sleeper Y667/668 in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,133 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 48 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- 25T sleeper stock
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2014
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The branded “Dunhuang” sleeper leaves Lanzhou at 18:00 and follows the Hexi Corridor’s Great Wall forts overnight, arriving near the Mogao caves by dawn.
How this line was checked
- The 164 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1474854 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 36 m); the longest stretch away from it is 14.5 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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