Lanxin railway

Lanxin railway

The Lanxin railway, or Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway (Traditional Chinese: 蘭新鐵路; Simplified Chinese: 兰新铁路; pinyin: Lánxīn Tiělù) is a railway in the People's Republic of China.

The railway is the only railway linking Xinjiang to the rest of China. It extends 1903.8 kilometers from Lanzhou (its easternmost point) to the Urumqi, and another 477 kilometers extended line to Alataw Pass (its westernmost point), where China's Alashankou railway station is connected to Kazakhstan's Dostyk station.

It forms part of the Second Eurasian Continental Bridge which extends from eastern China to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

For part of its path, it travels along a similar route to that of the Silk Road.

It was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation. Construction of the initial stage (to Urumqi) started in 1952 and was completed in 1962. The extension to the Kazakhstan border was built in the late 1980s, linkup with the Kazakhstan Railroads achieved on September 12, 1990. After the completion of the 20km Wushaoling Tunnel in 2006, the railway from Lanzhou to Urumqi is all double-tracked.

ee also

*Rail transport in the People's Republic of China
*List of railways in China

References

* cite web
title=Xinjiang Travel Guide
work=China Travel Guide
url=http://www.uvista.com/en/xinjiang/
accessdate=Dec 24
accessyear=2005

* cite web
title=The Economic Development of Xinjiang After the Founding of New China
work=Government White Papers
url=http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20030526/5.htm
accessdate=Dec 24
accessyear=2005

* cite web
title=Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway
work=China Railway Engineering Corporation
url=http://www.crecg.com/eng3/projects/lxtl.htm
accessdate=Dec 24
accessyear=2005


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