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The Yunnan–Haiphong railway (Chinese: 滇越铁路; pinyin: Diānyuè Tiělù; Vietnamese: tuyến đường sắt Hải Phòng – Vân Nam / 綫塘鐵海防－雲南; French: Chemins de Fer de L'Indo-Chine et du Yunnan, "Indo-China–Yunnan Railroad") is an 855 km (531 mi) railway built by France from 1904 to 1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam, with Kunming, Yunnan province, China.
Haiphong station. / 20.8560; 106.6875. Hải Phòng station is one of the main railway stations on the Hanoi–Hai Phong railway in Vietnam. It serves the city of Hai Phong and opened in 1902. [1] It is a terminus of the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, a French engineered narrow gauge railway completed in 1910, which was the first railway line to the ...
Railway. Haiphong station built in 1902 is the eastern terminus of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, also known as the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway. Built at by the French during their occupation, the railway once connected Haiphong to the city of Kunming in Yunnan, China, although service along the Chinese portion of the line is currently suspended.
Technical. Line length. 102 km (63 mi) Track gauge. 1,000 mm ( 3 ft 3. +. 3⁄8 in) The Hanoi–Haiphong railway ( Vietnamese: Đường sắt Hà Nội–Hải Phòng) is a railway line serving the country of Vietnam. It is a single-track metre-gauge line connecting from Hanoi to Haiphong, for a total length of 102 km (63 mi).
In early 1940, troops of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) moved to seize southern Guangxi and Longzhou County, where the eastern branch of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway reached the border at the Friendship Pass in Pingxiang. They also tried to move west to cut the rail line to Kunming. The railway from Indochina was the Chinese government's ...
Hanoi railway station was built by France and opened in 1902. That time, Hanoi station had a Western -style design and It was design by Henri Vildieu. Hanoi railway station is also one of the largest station in South East Asia at that time. [1] The building was damaged in the Vietnam War 1972 and in 1976 the central hall was rebuilt in modern ...
Usage. Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European ...
Hanoi–Lào Cai railway. Hanoi–Lào Cai Railway ( Vietnamese: Đường sắt Hà Nội–Lào Cai) is a 296 km (184 mi) railway line serving northern Vietnam. It is a single-track metre gauge line connecting Hanoi with Lào Cai, on the China-Vietnam border in Lào Cai Province. [1] It is the Vietnamese section of the metre gauge Kunming ...