Tanggula railway station

Tanggula railway station
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	唐古拉站
Simplified Chinese	唐古拉站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tánggǔlāzhàn

Tanggula railway station building

Tanggula railway station platform

The Tanggula railway station (Chinese: 唐古拉站; pinyin: táng gǔ lā zhàn) is a railway station located in Amdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The railway station has three rails and two served by two platforms.

Introduction

This unstaffed station on the Qingzang railway opened for service on July 1, 2006. The station is located 5,068 meters above sea level, surpassing Ticlio (Peru), at 4,829 m, Cóndor station, at 4,786 m, on the Rio Mulatos-Potosí line in Bolivia, and La Galera station at 4,781 m in Peru, and makes it the highest railway station in the world. It is no more than 1 kilometer away from the highest point of rail track at 5,072 meters.

The platform is 1.25 km long and covers 77002 squared meters. There are 3 rail tracks in the station. The location of the station was specially chosen for the view from the platform.

In 2008, Tangula Railtours, a joint venture of RailPartners and Qinghai Tibet Rail Corp., will launch a tourist train service from Beijing to Lhasa through the pass using three specially-built luxury trains.

Schedules

As of 2009, no passenger transport service was available. Passenger trains stopped at the station but without carriage doors opening.

See also

• Tanggula Pass
• Qingzang railway
• List of stations on Qingzang railway

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