High Speed Trains

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:50:59 +0200

China is extending its high-speed train network at an incredible speed. Too fast, it seems, for the infrastructure around it to keep up. Along the silk road, where the new train line was opened in December 2014, we found several train stations with unpaved access roads and improvised food stalls. Besides the obvious focus of priorities on the actual railway tracks, another explanation is that the new railway stations are often in the middle of nowhere, many kilometers away from the actual cities they are named after. Most extreme example is the high-speed trainstation of Dunhunag, which is an incredible 125km away from the city!