Dali鈥揕ijiang railway
Railway line in Yunnan, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dali鈥揕ijiang railway or Dali railway ( simplified Chinese: 澶т附閾佽矾; traditional Chinese: 澶ч簵閻佃矾; pinyin: d脿l矛 ti臎l霉), is a single-track electrified railroad in Yunnan Province of Southwest China. The line runs 165 km (103 mi) from Dali to Lijiang and was built from 2004 to 2009. [1] [2] Bridges and tunnels account 98 km (61 mi) of the total length of the line. [2] The trip by train between the two cities takes 1.5 hours compared to four hours by bus., [1] with maximum rated speed at 140 km/h
On October 30, 2011, the Dali鈥揕ijiang railway was extended northward by 16-km after the Renhe-Lijiang (Renli) rail extension was completed. [3] The Renli section begins from Renhe station, near Renhe village in Qihe Township of Old Town Lijiang, and runs north to the newly built Lijiang railway station. [3] The new Lijiang station is the second largest passenger railway station in Yunnan and will serve as the southern terminus of the Lijiang鈥揝hangri-La railway. [3]