Night train route
Zamyn-Üüd Express
Ulaanbaatar → Zamyn-Üüd · Mongolia
Zamyn-Üüd Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 709 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h
- Average speed
- 51 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Ulaanbaatar Railway
- Train
- 2M62 · sleeper
- Countries
- Mongolia
- In service since
- 1955
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The domestic overnight across the Gobi Desert from Ulaanbaatar to the Chinese-border town of Zamyn-Üüd, halting at Choir and Sainshand.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2707161 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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