Lhasa – Xigazê railway line
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| Route length: | 251 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Top speed: | 120 km / h |
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Tibetan script :
ལྷ་ གཞིས་ ལྕགས་ ལམ །
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Wylie transliteration : lha gzhis lcags lam
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Lha-Xi zaglam
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Simplified :
拉 日 铁路
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Pinyin : Lā – Rì tiělù
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The Lhasa – Xigazê railway connects the Tibet Autonomous Region , the capital of which is Lhasa, with the second largest city of Xigazê . An extension to Nepal is planned.
Building
The line is 251 kilometers long and extends the existing Lhasa Railway to the west. It has twelve subway stations and is designed for 120 km / h. Due to the difficult topography , 29 tunnels and 96 bridges had to be built, which make up 45.8 percent of the total route. Construction work began on September 26, 2010 and was largely completed in March 2014. The construction cost was 13.3 billion yuan (about 1.6 billion euros). At 50,000 yuan (6100 euros) per meter, it is the most expensive railway line built in China to date.
The line went into operation on August 16, 2014 with an inaugural train running from Lhasa to Xigazê. The travel time between the two cities is just under three hours. Here are diesel locomotives , as adapted for the high mountains Chinese series HXN3 used.
Train stations
The following train stations are on the route:
- Lhasa
- Lhasa South Station.
- Baide (白 德)
- Xêrong (ཤེས་ བྲོང ། / 协 荣)
- Qüxü
- Carag (ཚྭ་ རགས ། / 茶 巴拉)
- Nyêmo
- Karru (མཁར་ རུ ། / 卡 如)
- Rining
- Dagzhuka (སྟག་ གྲུ་ ཁ ། / 大竹 卡)
- Denggu (灯 古)
- Jiqiong (吉琼)
- Kardoi (མཁར་ སྟོད ། / 卡 堆)
- Xigazê
Planning
It is planned to continue the route to the border town of Zham (འགྲམ ། / 樟木), which is connected to Nepal via the Bridge of Sino-Nepalese Friendship . In the long term, the line from Xigazê to Ürümqi is to be extended, where it would have a further connection to the Chinese railway network, with a branch to Pakistan also planned.
It was announced in 2015 that the route from Xigazê to Zongga would be extended by 540 km , planned to open in 2020. In a letter of intent from June 2018, which was signed by China's President Xi Jinping and by Khadga Prasad Oli , the Prime Minister of Nepal the route will be extended by a further 150 km via the Rasuwagadhi border crossing to Kathmandu by 2025 . Commissioning is planned for 2025.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Keith Barrow: China and Nepal sign trans-Himalayan railway MoU . ( railjournal.com [accessed September 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Tibet railway opens to Xigaze , Railway Gazette , August 15, 2014
- ↑ Xinhua : Chinese-made locomotives to debut on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Global Times , July 15, 2014, accessed February 26, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e 国家 测绘 局 地名 研究所 (Ed.): ༄ ༅ ༎ བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང ༎ / 《西藏 地名》. Beijing: ཀྲུང་ གོའ ི་ བོད་ རིག་པ་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང ། / 中国 藏 学 出版社, 1995; ISBN 7-80057-284-6 .
- ↑ 陈观胜, 安 才 旦 (Ed.): ༄ ༅ ༎ རྒྱ་ དབྱིན་ བོད་ གསུམ་ ཤན་ སྦྱར་ གྱི་ བོད་ སྐད་ ཀྱི་ མི་ མིང་ དང་ ས་ མིང་ གཏེར་ མཛོད ༎ / 《汉英 藏 对照 常见 藏语 人名 地名 词典》. Beijing: 外文 出版社, 2004; ISBN 7-119-03497-9 .
- ^ Highway in Tibet opens South Asia to China Global Times / Renmin wang , September 18, 2017; Shailender Arya: The Train to Lhasa Journal of Defense Studies Vol. 2 No. 2 (Winter 2008).