Classic route
Longhai Railway
Lianyungang → Lanzhou · China
China’s east–west trunk, begun at Kaifeng in 1905 and forty-eight years reaching Lanzhou: the high-speed lines beside it were built to take its passengers off it.
How this line was checked
- The 187 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 16118477 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 92.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10 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
Questions and answers
How long is the Longhai Railway?
The Longhai Railway runs 1,759 km from Lianyungang to Lanzhou.
How long does the Longhai Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 25 h for the 1,759 km. That is an average of 70 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Longhai Railway?
China Railway, with K/T-series sleepers.
How old is the Longhai Railway?
The line has been in service since 1910. 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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