Classic route
Lanxin Railway
Lanzhou → Ürümqi · China
Lanxin Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,892 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 22 h
- Average speed
- 86 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway ↗
- Train
- K/T-series sleepers
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 1962
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Over Wushaoling at 3,000 m, down the Hexi Corridor past Jiayuguan and along the Tianshan to Turpan: the 1962 railway that first joined Xinjiang to the network.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 11.5 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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