The Golmud-Lhasa section of Qinghai-Tibet railway line is 1,142 kilometers long, with 960 kilometers of it sitting at 4,000 meters above sea level. The protection of the fragile ecosystem ...

Passengers on the world's highest train line rave about the stunning mountain views, but say the altitude sickness is ...

China's first fully electrified bullet train is now on the tracks in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet The new railroad connects Tibet's capital, Lhasa, to the city of Nyingchi, about 423 ...

Tibet government departments have taken measures to ensure the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which goes into trial operation as of July 1, is an ecologically friendly route. The Tourism Bureau of Tibet ...

Entwined with its people, the influence of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is changing as a new generation of Gurkhas populates the hills. Show more From the Himalayas in the north to the ...

In the summer of 2006 the Chinese government fulfilled a fiftyyear plan to build a railway into Tibet As noted by Abrahm Lustgarten in his book Chinas Great Train Since Mao Tse Tung first ...