China Launches New Passenger Train Service from Guangzhou to Lhasa

2006-10-02 21:56:33 CRIENGLISH.com

China has added a new passenger train service to Lhasa from Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong province. It is one of the longest passenger train services in the country.

The first express train left Guangzhou on Monday morning and is expected to arrive at Lhasa on Wednesday evening.

It takes travellers around 57 hours to cover the nearly 5,000 kilometers to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Earlier on Sunday, China opened the Shanghai-Lhasa passenger train service, which passes over 4,300 kilometers.

So far, the nearly 2,000-kilometer Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest railway, has carried some 380,000 passengers to Lhasa since starting service on July 1.

The railway, which starts from Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, and ends in Lhasa, is the first rail link ever to go to Tibet.

Before the plateau railway began service, people could reach Tibet only by air or via highway

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