Local residents walk on the platform of a light rail station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 20, 2015. (Photo: Xinhua) The Chinese-built 34-km Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) network has transported more than 29 million people in just nine months, says the Ethiopian Ministry of Transport(MoT). In a report submitted to Ethiopian parliament, MoT…
Songjiang Tram, as an important part of the “Four Network Combination” in Songjiang District, started the operation of “First Line” since the end of 2018, has received extensive attention from Songjiang citizens. Till now, Songjiang Tram Phase I has been running safely for more than 140 days, and the average daily passenger flow is about…
Passengers taking the subway line 4 in Xi’an, capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province during its trial operation on Dec. 26, 2018. BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) — A total of 35 Chinese cities (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) had rail-based transit systems in operation by the end of 2018, according to the China…
BANGKOK – Anupat Tiprat, 21, has been dreaming of becoming a train driver in his home country Thailand. In coming weeks, he will travel to northern Chinese city of Tianjin to learn train maintenance and driving for three years. “I love trains, my grandma took me to travel by train when I was a kid,”…
Vietnam’s capital Hanoi plans to increase the number of bus routes connected with China-constructed Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway from 43 to 50, with 65 bus stops along the route, local media reported on Monday. The bus system which connects with Cat Linh-Ha Dong railway route, built by the China Railway Sixth Group, will be…
A prototype high-speed maglev train with a top speed of 600 kilometers (km) per hour rolled off the assembly line in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The step marked a major breakthrough in the field of high-speed maglev technology, the one-paragraph Xinhua report said. The maglev train is…
China rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed maximum speed of 600 kilometers per hour in Qingdao on Thursday, filling the gap in travel speed between aviation and high-speed rail passenger transport in the country, according to its manufacturer. Launched in July 2016, the train is designed and manufactured in…
Fuxing bullet trains undergo final checks at CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd plant in Hebei. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s national railway operator has on Wednesday added a new function to help people buy tickets on the booking site 12306.cn and its related app, the Beijing News reported. When the desired train tickets are not available at the ticket…
Losong Tsering sits at the control panel of a high-speed train. As the only ethnic Tibetan high-speed train driver in China, 40-year-old Losong Tsering was elated when he sat in the driver’s cabin on the Lanzhou-Xining section of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway for the first time in 2017. He was born in a mountainous village…
Passengers are pictured in a subway train in Shenzhen city, South China’s Guangdong province, June 26, 2017. SHENZHEN – China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen on Monday piloted the use of the 5G wireless network to transmit a huge volume of data from the subway train to the station. The test on the Line 11 saw a…