High-speed route
Yinlan High-Speed
Yinchuan → Lanzhou · China
- Distance
- 473 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 56 min
- Average speed
- 161 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway ↗
- Train
- CR400AF · CR300BF Fuxing
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2022
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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
More high-speed routes
- Eurostar
Drops 75 m below the sea through the 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, 37.9 km of it under the seabed, the longest undersea stretch of any rail tunnel.
Wikipedia ↗ - TGV inOui
France’s original 1981 LGV forms the first leg; today the TGV holds 320 km/h nearly all the way to the Mediterranean.
Wikipedia ↗ - AVE
Scheduled at 310 km/h, Europe’s fastest timetable, this line flipped one of the world’s busiest air routes to rail.
Wikipedia ↗ - AVE
Spain’s first AVE, built for Expo ’92 in standard gauge, the line that reset Spanish railways.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in China.