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Silk Road railway in Northwest China nears completion

Updated: 2014-09-02 16:40 (chinadaily.com.cn)
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The 1,776-kilometer Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway is due to be completed by the end of this year. The new line will run through three regions along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China - Gansu and Qinghai provinces and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

It will be the first line to pass through the Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world". With a maximum speed of 250 km/h, the railway will halve the travel time between Beijing and Urumqi to 20 hours and that from Lanzhou to Urumqi to nine hours.

 

Silk Road railway in Northwest China nears completion

An area of track on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang line. [Photo by Ni Shubin/Asianewsphoto] 

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