Classic route
Jingha Railway
Beijing → Harbin · China
Jingha Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,249 km
- Fastest time
- 10 h 4 min
- Average speed
- 124 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway ↗
- Train
- 25T sleeper stock (Z15/Z16)
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 1881
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Its Tangshan–Tianjin end opened in 1881 as the Kaiping Tramway and is the oldest railway still working in China; the Z15 runs the whole 1,249 km overnight in ten hours.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 91.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 22.5 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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