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A commuter train on a Kunming North – Wangjiaying run in 2016 A freight train on the Hanoi–Lao Cai railway, near Bảo Hà station. Twice-a-week cross-border passenger service operated as late as 2000; the second-class passengers had to transfer from a Chinese train to a Vietnamese train at the border station, while the first-class car passengers could remain on board as their car was ...
[29] [30] Once completed, the high-speed rail line would allow trains to complete the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City journey in approximately 6 hours. [7] Vietnam's National Assembly rejected the existing plan for the line in June 2010, and asked for further study of the project. [28] Major stations. Hanoi station (Ha Noi)
From 1904 to 1910, the French built the Yunnan–Vietnam railway, to connect Kunming with Hanoi and Haiphong in French Tonkin, now northern Vietnam. In 1918, the southern line of the Thailand railway system was connected with British Malaya 's west coast line , completing a metre gauge rail link from Bangkok to Singapore . [ 8 ]
The Mengzi–Hekou rail line runs 141 km (88 mi) from Mengzi City in southern Yunnan to the Hekou Yao Autonomous County on the border with Vietnam. [11] Construction began in December 2008 and the line entered operation in December 2014, with two trains running daily from Kunming to Hekou and the travel time of 6 hours.
Due to the deterioration of the railway line, the long distance narrow-gauge service has been cancelled. Since 2012, some local narrow gauge commuter train service resumes at Kunming North railway station, in particular one daily train to Shizui railway station (石咀站) on the western outskirts of Kunming, and two trains daily to Wangjiaying railway station (王家营站) to the east of the ...
Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European Union's ...
Nanning is already connected by conventional-speed rail to Vietnam, though Pingxiang on the China–Vietnam border. Nanning–Pingxiang high-speed railway is also under construction. This would allow high-speed trains from Guangzhou to Nanning to continue on to Vietnam and other countries in ASEAN, connecting with the Kunming–Singapore ...
The 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge Kunming–Hekou railway (previously known as the "Sino-Vietnamese Railway") was part of the Kunming–Haiphong railway built by French colonists between Vietnam and China.
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