Scenic route
Mandalay–Lashio
Mandalay → Lashio · Myanmar
- Distance
- 280 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h
- Average speed
- 23 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Myanmar Railways
- Train
- Myanmar Railways diesel with upper-class coaches
- Countries
- Myanmar
- In service since
- 1900
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Shan hill line crawls up from Mandalay to inch across the Gokteik viaduct: a 1900 American-built steel trestle 100 m above the gorge.
How this line was checked
- The 278 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13760507 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 61 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 15 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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