China's beauty by rail

Updated: 2015-12-08 10:09

(chinadaily.com.cn)

A train runs across the snow covered mountains of the Juyongguan section of the Great Wall in Beijing on Nov 20, 2015. [Photo/IC]

Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, running from Fengtai district in Beijing to Zhangjiakou city in North China's Hebei province, is famous as the first China-built railway without foreign interference.

The railway, opened to traffic in 1909, has a total length of 201.2 kilometers, running across the Juyongguan section and Badaling section of the Great Wall.