Night train route
Golmud–Korla Railway
Golmud → Korla · China
Golmud–Korla Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,206 km
- Fastest time
- ~12 h
- Average speed
- 101 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- 25G sleeper stock
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened 2020 across the Altun Shan between Qinghai and Xinjiang: 1,206 km of salt flats, desert and near-total emptiness — one of the loneliest overnight rides on Earth.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10884548 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- 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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