Night train route
Nanning–Hanoi International
Nanning → Hanoi · China · Vietnam
Nanning–Hanoi International in pictures
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- Distance
- 396 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 32 km/h
- Countries
- China, Vietnam
- In service since
- 1955
- Operator
- China Railway Nanning · Vietnam Railways
- Train
- China Railway 25G sleeping cars (T8701/MR2)
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Out of Nanning by night through Chongzuo and Pingxiang, over the border at Đồng Đăng, down to Gia Lâm in Hanoi: through since 1955, stopped in 2020, running again from 25 May 2025.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- 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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