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The railway is built on a single track with passing loops and is electrified to China's Class I trunk railway standards, suitable for 160 km/h (100 mph) passenger and 120 km/h (75 mph) freight trains, making Laos the first country to connect to the Chinese high-speed railway network using Chinese technology.
It is the northernmost intermediate stop, and the final stop in Laos on the Boten–Vientiane railway. It opened along with the rest of the line on 3 December 2021. [2] The custom facility at the station does not issue Laos visa-on-arrival, [3] but accepts eVisa. [4]
The standard gauge Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway, scheduled for completion in 2028, may eventually extend to Vientiane station, completing the Kunming–Singapore railway. [7] In 2022, the Vientiane Times announced that Laos intends to build a new standard-gauge railway from Vientiane to the port of Vung Ang in central Vietnam. [8]
In September 2010, state media in Yunnan reported that the Ministry of Railways had held a planning conference for the Yuxi–Mohan railway in August and that construction of the double track electrified line, 487.7 km (303 mi) in length and capable of accommodating trains traveling at speeds of up to 200 km/h (124 mph), would begin by the end ...
Part of the Kunming–Yuxi–Hekou main railway upgraded in 2016 200: 106: Standard 1993: Yuxi–Mohan: Line connecting Yuxi with the China-Laos border at Mohan: 160: 507: Standard 2021 Laos: Boten–Vientiane: First railway line in Laos spanning the country, between the Chinese border at Boten to the capital Vientiane near the Thai border 160: ...
Laos has 422 km (262 mi) of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge railways, primarily consisting of the Boten–Vientiane railway, which opened in December 2021.It also has a 12 km (7 mi) metre gauge railway with two stations in Vientiane, Khamsavath and Thanaleng, both of which are connected to Thailand's railway system.
The expressway will be approximately 1,900 km (1,200 mi) in length when complete; about 730 km (450 mi) was completed from Kunming via Xiaomenyang to Jinghong) and crossing the Lao border at Mohan, all in Yunnan, by 2017 [2] and the next 250 km (160 mi) of the Highway, south of China within Laos follows Route 13 then Route 3.
Passenger rail transport in Laos (1 C) ... Kunming–Singapore railway This page was last edited on 26 January 2018, at 17:20 (UTC). ...