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The name 渝新欧 is an acronym, consisting of Yu (渝, Chongqing), Xin (新, Xinjiang), Ou (欧, Europe). It passes through the Dzungarian Gate into Kazakhstan, and moves through Russia, Belarus and Poland before arriving in Duisburg. [1] The railway is part of a growing rail network connecting China and Europe along the New Silk Road. [2] [3 ...
The Yiwu–London railway line is a freight railway route from Yiwu, China, to London, United Kingdom, covering a distance of roughly 12,000 km (7,500 miles). [1] [2] This makes it the second longest railway freight route in the world after the Yiwu–Madrid railway line, which spans 12,874 km (8,046 miles). [3]
Yiwu–Madrid train in Madrid. 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 approximately 13,000 kilometres (8,100 mi), and the longest in the world. [1] The Trans-Siberian Railway was previously the longest.
The Trans-Asian Railway Network Agreement is an agreement signed on 10 November 2006, [2] by seventeen Asian nations as part of a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) effort to build a transcontinental railway network between Europe and Pacific ports in China. [3]
Logo of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route Map of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. The Middle Corridor, also called TITR (Trans-Caspian International Transport Route), is a trade route from Southeast Asia and China to Europe via Kazakhstan, Caspian Sea (using train ferries to cross the Caspian), [1] Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. [2]
One factor is use of a wider rail gauge by the railways of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union than most of the rest of Europe and China. China's rail system had long linked to the Trans-Siberian via northeastern China and Mongolia. In 1990, China added a link between its rail system and the Trans-Siberian via Kazakhstan.
Individual China Rail Passenger routes displayed in Google Maps with timetable (Chinese and English) Railway map of China (1). Showing double track lines, electrified lines and planned lines in detail around year 2001. Railway map of China (2). Showing railway network in 1990s. Railway map of China (3). Showing railway network in 1980s.
Had a plantation railway 044 Barbados: Had a public railway. Has a 3 km tourist line opened in 2019. 052 Belize: Had one public railway and a number of private lines 084 Brunei: Has a 4 km section of pier railway (so is outside the definition for this article) 096 Burundi: Had an internal port railway 108 Cape Verde: Had a harbour railway 132