China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest rail system, is being threatened by desertification on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a result of global warming, experts concluded after conducting a ...

Qinghai-Tibet Railway: The Guinness-Record Rail Line That Takes You Above 5,000 Meters When it comes to jaw-dropping engineering marvels, India’s Chenab Bridge certainly impresses, soaring 359 meters ...

A train running along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, passes under the foot of the Tanggula Mountain of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. [File photo] China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway has passed the ...

Tanggula Railway Station, nestled in the Tanggula Mountains of Tibet, holds the distinction of being the world's highest railway station at 5,068 meters. As part of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, this ...

Built quite literally on the roof of the world – at an average elevation around 4,500m above sea level – the Golmud Station; from here the line stretches 1,142km to Lhasa. Xinhua bridge; one of the ...

Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt terrible. As the railway ministry's boss of dining services, she had to ensure that some 800 passengers on the inaugural ...

A 100-kilometer section of the Qinghai-Tibet railway will be built this year, a government official of northwest China's Qinghai Province disclosed in Xi'an Thursday. Su Sen, vice governor of Qinghai, ...