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By Train on the Roof of the World – Andreas Lorenz
From Spiegel Online: Looking from the imposing Potala Palace into the Lhasa River Valley, one glimpses a white bridge far in the distance. For the moment, it is empty. But soon, trains will be rolling...
View ArticleSiemens Builds One of World’s Fastest Trains in China – Bloomberg
From Bloomberg: Siemens AG‘s contract to supply China 60 locomotives as fast as France’s TGV trains may herald billions of dollars of orders for global engineering companies, economists including...
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China to order 60 bullet trains – AFP (UPDATED)
From AFP, via Aljazeera.Net: China will order 60 bullet trains from a Japanese consortium led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries as Beijing turns to both Japanese and German firms to expand its rail...
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China plans luxury train to Tibet – BBC
From BBC NEWS: A Chinese firm has unveiled plans for a luxury rail service between China’s main cities and Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. Backed by private Western investment, the service aims to launch in...
View ArticleA China-Size Travel Delay – Edward Cody
From The Washington Post: Heavy snowfall in central China disrupted rail traffic Friday just as millions of Chinese headed home for Spring Festival family reunions, stranding countless travelers in...
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On a People’s Train From Urumqi to Beijing – Matt Gross
From the New York Times: It was a slow day in the railway ticket office in downtown Urumqi, and as I walked up to the counter, where there was no line, I was feeling lucky. Then the ticket clerk...
View ArticleSlideshow: Golden Week and Passenger Flow
Oct. 1, 2007, marked the 58th National Day of the People’s Republic of China. Three days ago, one of China’s three annual Golden Weeks began and people crowded railway stations for a variety of reasons...
View ArticleChina Produces First Home-grown Bullet Train: Report – AFP
China’s first high-speed bullet train will start running between Beijing – Tianjin soon, according to AFP: The streamlined train body, made of aluminium alloy, is the lightest of its kind in the...
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China to Enter New Railway Era by 2010 – CCTV
Big plans for a renovated railway station were recently revealed on Friday. From CCTV: China’s railway station is integral for many of China’s 1.3 billion people – be it for commuting or when they...
View ArticleSlideshow: Guangzhou Train Station During Spring Festival
Guangzhou has perhaps the largest migrant worker population (over ten million) of any city in China. When Chinese New Year arrives, the vast majority of these workers leave en mass to return home,...
View ArticleVideo: Guangzhou Train Station Under Control
Thanks Dani for the response to CDT’s previous post Guangzhou Train Station During Spring Festival. Here is the comment and video: Regarding the situation in Guangdong, a photographer and myself have...
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Photo: Spring Festival travelers at the Beijing train station
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View ArticleSlideshow: All About Train Tickets
A netizen with the nickname Zeng Guangyong posted some photos taken recently on fengniao.com. These photos illustrate how difficult it is for common people in China to buy train tickets back home for...
View ArticleCorruption Derails Travel Plans For Many Chinese
From The Los Angeles Times: Railroad tickets are a dangerous business in China. Retired military man Wang Hanlin opened a travel agency here a decade ago, but found that the best seats disappeared no...
View ArticleLingering Memories of the Old Xinning Railway
At the New York Times’ Sinosphere blog, China correspondent Edward Wong reflects on his family’s memories of the Xinning Railway, where there is now “nothing much to see, except for weeds and earth and...
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