Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...

China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China. The first train ...

Like the Golden Spike that completed America's transcontinental railroad, China sees the recent completion of its first rail link to Tibet as a historic event. Since the railway opened to traffic two ...

For the first time, travelers in Tibet can enjoy the area’s mountainous views at high-speed. A 435-kilometer (250-mile) rail line connecting Tibetan capital Lhasa with the city of Nyingchi entered ...

BEIJING — Travelers in the Himalayas can now bypass some of Tibet's hazardous roads by using a new railway line that has renewed fears about Tibet's cultural identity and deepened concerns about China ...

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 ...

The proposed rail line will run north-west along the Nepal border before piercing north through Aksai Chin. Credit: Thomas from Pixabay. China is reportedly set to start construction on a new railway ...

Seven years after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway went into operation, the "roof of the world" is about to see more railways connecting it to other parts of China. Several new railway lines are either under ...

China is set to begin construction of a strategic railway line linking Ya’an in Sichuan with Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Part of a larger rail project to link Chengdu, the capital ...

Chinese laborers and businessmen pay about $45 for a simple seat on the train to Tibet. Like the Golden Spike that completed America's transcontinental railroad, China sees the recent completion of ...