Lanxin railway

The Lanxin railway, or Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway is a in the People's Republic of China.

The railway is the only railway linking Xinjiang to the rest of China. It extends 1903.8 kilometers from Lanzhou to the Urumqi, and another 477 kilometers extended line to Alataw Pass , where China's Alashankou railway station is connected to Kazakhstan's Dostyk station.

It forms part of the Second Eurasian Continental Bridge which extends from eastern China to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

For part of its path, it travels along a similar route to that of the Silk Road.

It was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation. Construction of the initial stage started in 1952 and was completed in 1962. The extension to the Kazakhstan border was built in the late 1980s, linkup with the achieved on September 12, 1990. After the completion of the 20km Wushaoling Tunnel in 2006, the railway from Lanzhou to Urumqi is all double-tracked.