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The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (Standard Tibetan: མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam; simplified Chinese: 青藏铁路; traditional Chinese: 青藏鐵路; pinyin: Qīngzàng Tiělù), is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet. [1]
A typical 25G consist for K-series trains usually have 6 to 9 hard seat cars (YZ25G, the YZ stands for hard seat or 硬座, yìngzùo), one dining car (CA25G, the CA stands for 餐车, cānchē), one soft sleeper car (RW25G, the RW stands for 软卧, ruǎnwò), several hard sleeper cars (YW25G, the YW stands for 硬卧, yìngwò) and a luggage ...
It is one of three planned railways to Tibet in the Mid-to-Long Term Railway Network Plan (revised in 2008), the other two are the Chuanzang railway (Sichuan–Tibet) and the Xinjiang–Tibet railway. Its total length will be 1,594.4 km. It will connect to the Sichuan–Tibet railway in Bomê [1] (pinyin : Bōmì)
Soft sleeper is the main class on most Z-series express trains, and are grouped in several carriages as part of slower trains. They are more expensive than hard sleepers but are generally more comfortable as there is more room to move around and the bunks tend to be, albeit not always, softer in firmness.
On Sichuan–Tibet railway, the plateau variant of China Railway CR200J was used. It's a type of bi-mode locomotive specifically designed for plateau operations with weather resistance. [ 13 ] A combination of diffusion and distributed oxygen systems are installed to help alleviate altitude sickness for passengers on the trip.
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China is the only country to operate high-speed sleeper trains. Sleeper services are operated using high-speed CRH1E, CRH2E and CRH5E trains outfitted with sleeping berths . Services run between Beijing - Shanghai and Beijing - Guangzhou at speeds of up to 250 km/h (160 mph), one of the fastest sleeper trains in the world.
The Type 24 is a class of two unrelated carriages of China Railway.The two different types can be separated into those built in 1966 for air conditioned services on the Guangshen railway and those imported in the 1980s from East Germany, which consisted mostly soft seaters, but also a few hard sleepers.