Scenic route
Mandalay–Lashio
Mandalay → Lashio · Myanmar
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Mandalay–Lashio?
The Mandalay–Lashio runs 280 km from Mandalay to Lashio.
How long does the Mandalay–Lashio take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 12 h for the 280 km. That is an average of 23 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 40 km/h.
Who runs the Mandalay–Lashio?
Myanmar Railways.
How old is the Mandalay–Lashio?
The line has been in service since 1900. 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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