Classic route
Binsui Line
Harbin → Suifenhe · China
The eastern arm of the old Chinese Eastern Railway, running provisionally from November 1901 and opened properly on 14 July 1903; ten hours from Harbin to the Russian border at Suifenhe.
The Binsui Railway is a double-track electrified trunk line across Northeast China, from Harbin to Suifenhe on the Russian border. Russia built it as the eastern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the arm that carried the Trans-Siberian from Chita to Vladivostok; the 548 km are now run by the Harbin Railway Bureau.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1656856: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 44 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Binsui Line?
The Binsui Line runs 491 km from Harbin to Suifenhe.
How long does the Binsui Line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 10 h 05 min for the 491 km. That is an average of 49 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Binsui Line?
China Railway, with K7023.
How old is the Binsui Line?
The line has been in service since 1903. 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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