The Yiwu - Madrid Railway line is one of the routes that are rail links between what two land masses?
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Yiwu–Madrid railway line The Yiwu - Madrid Railway line is a railway route taken by container trains from the Chinese city of Yiwu to the Spanish city of Madrid, a distance of roughly 10,000 kilometres (about 6,111 miles ), 741 kilometres more than the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest until now. It is one of several routes used by long distance freight trains on the "New Eurasian Land Bridge". (Other city pairs connected by regular freight trains running between China and Europe include e.g. Lianyungang and Rotterdam, or Yiwu and Warsaw; as of 2016, at least 12 Chinese cities and 9 European ones were connected by similar trains.)
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New Eurasian Land Bridge The New Eurasian Land Bridge, also called the Second or New Eurasian Continental Bridge, is the southern branch of the Eurasian Land Bridge rail links running through the People's Republic of China. The Eurasian Land Bridge is the overland rail link between East Asia and Europe.
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Nanning–Pingxiang High-Speed Line The Nanning–Pingxiang High-Speed Line is a planned high-speed railway between Pingxiang and Nanning in southern China. The route would connect to railways in northern Vietnam, and this line is seen as the first stage of a high-speed network reaching as far as Singapore.
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Trans-Siberian Railway The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR, Russian: Транссиби́рская магистра́ль , "Transsibirskaya Magistral"; ] ) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East. With a length of 9,289 km , it is the longest railway line in the world. There are connecting branch lines into Mongolia, China and North Korea. It has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916, and is still being expanded.
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Pan County West Railway The Pan County West Railway or Panxi Railway (), is a single-track electrified railroad in Southwest China between Zhanyi County in eastern Yunnan province and Baiguo Township in Pan County in western Guizhou province. The line is 136.3 km in length and was built during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1975 to exploit coal fields in western Guizhou and support inland industries as part of the Third Front. The line's name is derived from the fact that the railway from Hongguo to Baiguo, runs along the western border of Pan County. The Panxi Line was electrified in 2001 and permits trains from Chengdu to reach the seaport at Fangchenggang by following the Neikun, Shuibai, Panxi and Hongwei Lines to the Nankun Line at Weishe, saving 279 km from traveling via the Chengkun Line to the Nankun Line at Kunming. Notable stations along route include Zhanyi, Fucheng County, Hongguo Township and Baiguo Township.
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Jinghe–Yining–Khorgos Railway The Jingyihuo Railway (精伊霍铁路), short for Jinghe–Yining–Khorgas Railway, is the first electrified railway in operation in Xinjiang, China. The line is 286 km in length and connects Jinghe, Yining and Khorgos. The Jingyihuo Railway branches from the Northern Xinjiang Railway at Jinghe in the Junggar Basin, and heads south through the Tian Shan range into the Ili River Valley. Cities and towns along route include Jinghe, Nilka County, Yining County, Yining, Huocheng County, and Khorgos, on the border with Kazakhstan.
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Qingdao–Yinchuan Passageway The Qingdao-Yinchuan Passageway is a proposed high-speed rail line running from Qingdao in the coastal province of Shandong to Yinchuan in Ningxia. The line will pass through the cities of Jinan, Shijiazhuang, and Taiyuan. Announced in 2016 as part of the national "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" high-speed railway network, the line comprises the existing Qingdao–Taiyuan High-Speed Railway and the Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway.
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Hengyang–Liuzhou Intercity Railway Hengyang–Liuzhou Intercity Railway is a high-speed railway in South-Western China, connecting Hunan and Guangxi provinces. It will allow for a high-speed connection with the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway and will link with the Guangxi capital of Nanning via the Liuzhou–Nanning Intercity Railway. It has allowed for direct high-speed services from Beijing to Guilin in only 10 hours.
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Hunan–Guangxi Railway The Hunan–Guangxi Railway or Xianggui Railway (), is a mostly electrified railroad in southern China that connects Hunan province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The shortform name of the line, Xianggui, is named after the Chinese short names of Hunan, "Xiang" and Guangxi, "Gui". The line runs 1013 km from Hengyang in Hunan to Friendship Pass on Guangxi's border with Vietnam. Major cities along route include Hengyang, Yongzhou, Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning, Pingxiang, and Friendship Pass.
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Guangtong–Dali Railway The Guangtong–Dali or Guangda Railway (), is a single-track electrified railroad in Yunnan Province of Southwest China. The line branches off of the Guangtong Station, near Kunming on the Chengdu–Kunming Railway and runs west to Dali City. The line is 213 km in length and was built from May 1992 to June 1998. Major cities and towns along route include Chuxiong City, Nanhua, Xiangyun County, Midu and Dali.
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Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail (abbreviated THSR or HSR) is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately 349.5 km , along the west coast of Taiwan, from the national capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction managed by a private company, Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC), which also operates the line, the total cost of the project was US$18 billion. At the time it was built, this was one of the world's largest privately funded rail construction schemes. The system is based primarily on Japan's Shinkansen technology.
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Tsushima Strait Tsushima Strait (対馬海峡 , Tsushima Kaikyō ) ; (Korean: 쓰시마 해협 "sseu-si-ma hae-hyeop") is the eastern channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
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Narrow-gauge railways in Asia There are large number of narrow-gauge railways in Asia. The railways of Japan (except for high speed lines), Indonesia and Philippines are predominantly narrow gauge railways. The railways of Mainland Southeast Asia, which includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia are predominantly railways. The proposed ASEAN Railway would be standard gauge or dual gauge, using both metre- and standard-gauge regional railway networks, linking Singapore at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, through Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to the standard-gauge railway network of the People's Republic of China. In middle east, Jordan uses narrow gauge railways.
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G4W Guangzhou–Macau Expressway The Guangzhou–Macau Expressway (), commonly referred to as the "Guang'ao Expressway" () is an expressway that connects the cities of Guangzhou, Guangdong, and Macau, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It is a spur line of the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway.
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Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway Yu'Xin'Ou Railway (渝新欧) is a freight rail route linking the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing with Duisburg, Germany. It passes through the Alataw Pass into Kazakhstan, and moves through Russia, Belarus and Poland before arriving in Duisburg. The railway is part of a growing rail network connecting China and Europe along the New Silk Road.
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Hengfeng–Nanping Railway Hengfeng–Nanping Railway, also known as the Hengnan Railway (), is a railroad in eastern China between Hengfeng, Jiangxi Province and Nanping, Fujian Province. The line is 470 km long, including a spur line to Shangrao, and opened in December 1998. Major cities along route include Hengfeng, Wuyishan, Jianyang, Jian'ou, and Nanping.
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Yamagata Shinkansen The Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線 ) is a Mini-shinkansen route in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It provides service between Tokyo and Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture over the tracks of the Tohoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line.
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Longhai Railway The Longhai railway (), formerly romanized as the Lunghai Railway, is a major arterial east-west railway in China. It runs from Lianyungang, Jiangsu on the Yellow Sea to Lanzhou, Gansu through the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, covering a total length of 1,759 kilometres. The line is named after Gansu, also known as "Long" (陇 ) in Chinese and Lianyungang's previous name, "Haizhou". The Longhai Line is one of the busiest Chinese railways. It has dual tracks throughout the whole line, and the lines between Xuzhou, Jiangsu and Lanzhou, Gansu has been electrified.
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Golmud-Korla Railway Geku railway (格库铁路) is a railway under construction to connect Golmud and Korla, in western China. Construction work started in November 2014 and is due to take five years. The length of the line is 1,214 kilometers, joining Qinghai province and Xinjiang province. The investment is estimated to be CN¥36 billion (~US$6 billion). The line will connect the existing Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Southern Xinjiang Railway. It will be the third railway connecting Xinjiang province with another Chinese province and the third line to Golmud after the Qinghai–Tibet Railway and the Golmud–Dunhuang Railway which is also under construction.
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History of rail transport in China The history of rail transport in China began in the late nineteenth century during the Qing Dynasty. Since then, it has become one of the largest rail networks in the world.
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Rail transport in South Korea The rail transportation system in South Korea includes mainline railway lines and rapid transit system in some major cities.
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Tongliao–Ranghulu Railway The Tongliao–Ranghulu Railway or Tongrang Railway (), is a railroad in northeastern China, between Tongliao station in Inner Mongolia and Daqing west station(formerly Ranghulu Station) on the Harbin-Manzhouli Railway in Heilongjiang Province. The railway has a total length of 421 km and runs north-south from eastern Inner Mongolia through western Jilin Province to the oil fields of Daqing in western Heilongjiang. The line was built from 1964 to 1966. Major cities and towns along route include Tongliao, Da'an, and Daqing.