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Standard gauge [3] The Thái Nguyên–Kép railway line was a strategic, standard-gauge line constructed between October 1965 and December 1966 by a railroad engineering division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who operated in North Vietnam repairing railway lines at the request of Ho Chi Minh. [26] Major stations
In Vietnam, the Hanoi metropolitan area has standard-gauge access via the dual-gauge (meter and standard) line that runs from Hanoi's Gia Lâm railway station to the Chinese border at Đồng Đăng; this is the line that enables direct standard-gauge connection between Hanoi and China. At the narrow-gauge railway's northern end, Kunming, is ...
Hanoi–Đồng Đăng railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt Hà Nội–Đồng Đăng) is a railway line in the country of Vietnam. It is a single-track standard-gauge and metre-gauge line connecting the capital Hanoi to Đồng Đăng, on the China-Vietnam border in Lạng Sơn Province. It has a total length of 162 km (101 mi). [1]
The Kunming–Yuxi–Hekou railway is a standard-gauge railway in Yunnan Province of China, linking the provincial capital Kunming with the town of Hekou on the Vietnamese border. Constructed in several stages between 1989 and 2014, the Kunming–Yuxi–Hekou railway has largely replaced the Chinese section of the old metre-gauge Kunming ...
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 ...
Some of China's rail network is metre gauge, and many narrow-gauge railways existed in the country. Metre-gauge railways were popular in several regions before 1949. The metre-gauge Kunming-Hekou Railway (previously known as the Sino-Vietnamese Railway) was built between Vietnam and China by French colonists.
The gauge for most of the China national railway network is standard gauge.Currently, in the national railway network, only the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge Kunming–Haiphong railway uses narrow gauge.
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm ... China: National rail network: 103,144 km (64,091 mi) ... Vietnam: North of Hanoi [61] 178 km ...