High-speed route
Yinlan High-Speed
Yinchuan → Lanzhou · China
Two halves opened three years apart to the day, 29 December 2019 and 2022, and Yinchuan to Lanzhou fell to 2 h 56 min across the loess of Ningxia and Gansu.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 8355929 (427 km), relation 6143691 (46 km) — 472 km of the route between 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 Yinlan High-Speed?
The Yinlan High-Speed runs 473 km from Yinchuan to Lanzhou.
How long does the Yinlan High-Speed take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 56 min for the 473 km. That is an average of 161 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 250 km/h.
Who runs the Yinlan High-Speed?
China Railway, with CR400AF, CR300BF Fuxing.
How old is the Yinlan High-Speed?
The line has been in service since 2022. 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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