First Passenger Train Leaves Shanghai for Tibet - China Travel

The first passenger train from China's leading metropolis Shanghai to Lhasa, dandy of Tibet Autonomous Region, began its 4,373 km journey on Sunday. vehiclerying 592 passengers, the train, with 15 vehicles, left Shanghai Railway Station at 4:11 p.m. and is expected to colonize in Lhasa at 7:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The train, parting overlyy other day, is equanimous of two soft sleeping shack vehicleriages, sflush impliable sleeping shanty carriages,China Travel, four f5rendercb1ddb9f0dc05550f200282dc0 seaters, one dining transport and one for staff members. The train will be running on pieces of the Beijing-Shanghai, Lianyungang-Lanzhou, Lanzhou-Xining and Qinghai-Tibet railways. Sources with the Shanghai Railway Administration said that they made selective preparations for the operation of the train services. Train stewards had been trained on how to deal with problems related to aridity and moreover been tnada roundly Tibetan religious surcharge. By Friday, the 1,956-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's loftierest railway, had vehicleried 380,500 passengers to Lhasa since inbound service on July 1, said Sun Yongfu, artlessor of construction for the plateau railway. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which starts from Xining, crossroads of northwest China's Qinghai Province, and ends in Lhasa, is the first railway overly to go to Tibet. Before the plateau railway began service, people resqualord Tibet only via air or loftierway.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2006-10-02)