The train from Lhasa to Xining is one of only four passengertrains a day on the new Qinghai-Tibet railway. The locomotives were built in 2006 by General Electric, Pennsylvania, USA
The new Qinghai-Tibet railway is 1.142 km (710 miles) long. A total of 960 km track (600 miles) are laid on permafrost - that's soil frozen all year, except for a thin layer in the surface that wi... (more)
Qinghai-Tibet railway at km 1405 - that's 544 km (338 miles) north of Lhasa. Tanggula station is located at altitude 5.068 m (16.628 feet) and thereby the highest placed railway station in the wor... (more)