Night train route
Lào Cai Sleeper
Hanoi → Lao Cai · Vietnam
Overnight metre-gauge sleeper up the Red River valley to Lào Cai, the mountain gateway to the terraced rice slopes of Sapa.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8351998 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 37 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vietnam Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Lào Cai Sleeper?
The Lào Cai Sleeper runs 296 km from Hanoi to Lao Cai.
How long does the Lào Cai Sleeper take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 8 h for the 296 km. That is an average of 37 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 60 km/h.
Who runs the Lào Cai Sleeper?
Vietnam Railways, with SP1/SP3 sleeper.
How old is the Lào Cai Sleeper?
The line has been in service since 1906. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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