Trip Report – China Railways train K174
Train origin: Xining West Train destination: Qingdao Train distance: 2476 km Travel Time: 35:18 I Joined train at: Lanzhou I Left train at: Jinan My distance: 1855 km My travel […]
Train origin: Xining West Train destination: Qingdao Train distance: 2476 km Travel Time: 35:18 I Joined train at: Lanzhou I Left train at: Jinan My distance: 1855 km My travel […]
After leaving the town of Dunhuang, I arrived back in Liuyuan a couple of hours before my train was due. Last time I had passed through this town was late […]
“You must visit Dunhuang once in your life. If you don’t you’ll regret it forever… but if you do go, you’ll regret it twice as much”. The words of the […]
Train origin: Urumqi Train destination: Hangzhou Train distance: 4168 km Travel Time: 57:14 Joined train at: Urumqi Left train at: Liuyuan My distance: 825 km My travel time: 10:22 Urumqi […]
The following is an account of my experiences at Urumqi station in the far northwest of China. It was around 8am on an August morning in 2011 and I had […]
Below is a trip report for a journey I took in August 2011 on a China Railways train from Jinan (Shandong Province in eastern China) to Urumqi (Xinjiang Province, far […]
In my previous post I gave an overview of China’s impressive railway network. All of this is nice to know, but how do you actually get where you want to […]
China Railways China is the largest country in the world by population (around 1.3 billion people), and the second largest by land area. To transport these masses of people and […]
South Korean Metros/Subways South Korea has six metro systems; Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju and Busan. They are privately run but government funded/regulated, and all accept the T Money stored […]
Welcome! My first blog post is about a small but significant part of Asian rail transport. An often forgotten destination, which has more than its fair share of interesting trains. […]