Rails to conquer the Tibetan plateau

By Railway Gazette International2001-05-01T10:00:00

INTRO: Construction of a railway to Lhasa was started in 1958, but halted in the early 1980s until technical challenges could be overcome. Two decades later, Chinese Railways is poised to start work on an 1100 km railway through some of the world’s toughest terrain

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