Night train route
Southern Xinjiang Railway
Urumqi → Kashgar · China
All-night sleepers skirt the Tian Shan and the Taklamakan’s rim to Kashgar, the last great Silk Road bazaar before the Pamirs.
How this line was checked
- The 1311 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 163712 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Southern Xinjiang Railway?
The Southern Xinjiang Railway runs 1,475 km from Urumqi to Kashgar.
How long does the Southern Xinjiang Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 15 h for the 1,475 km. That is an average of 98 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 140 km/h.
Who runs the Southern Xinjiang Railway?
China Railway Urumqi Group, with K/T-series sleepers.
How old is the Southern Xinjiang Railway?
The line has been in service since 1999. 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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