On an evening in late December, amid the chaos of Beijing West Railway Station, I stood in line for a train that looked little different from any of the other long-distance services shuffling into the ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Aboard the Beijing-Lhasa Express, China – China’s first train from Beijing to Tibet set out Saturday carrying business travelers and thrill-seekers on the ...

Qinghai -Tibet Railway, highest railway in the world, runs for about 1,242 miles most of which is about 13,000 feet high and surely the high way to go for travel between Lhasa, capital of Tibet ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China- China's first train from Beijing to Tibet made the final leg of its journey Monday on the world's highest railway, ...

On July 1, the Chinese government celebrated with great fanfare the opening of the final stretch of its railway to Tibet. The section runs between the city of Golmud in Qinghai province and the ...

Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Shortly after 9 p.m. one warm night last fall, my travel companion and I raced ...

The first train from Beijing to Tibet finished an arduous journey along the world’s highest railway Monday, opening direct service to the Himalayan region that China has been trying for decades to ...

2005-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Tuotuohe, China-- In this muddy truck stop along the Qinghai-Tibet highway, Zhao, the Chinese owner of the Lanzhou Handmade Noodle Tavern, reminisced about the good old days.

Tibet Train Travel The Train to Tibet is one of the tremendous achievements in the industry of train transportation as well as tourism in China. Between Xining and Golmud the tracks pass by Qinghai ...

ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS – Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled by ...

Two-thousand-five-hundred miles over two days, a journey through some of China’s biggest cities, long stretches of countryside and over the world’s highest-altitude railroad pass: The Lhasa Express ...