Classic route
Chengdu–Kunming Railway
Chengdu → Kunming · China
- Distance
- 1,100 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 7 h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway Chengdu Group
- Train
- CR200J Fuxing & slow trains
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 1970
The impossible mountain line of 1970 — 427 tunnels and 991 bridges through the Daliangshan, where 5-yuan slow trains still double as the Yi villages’ market bus.
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