Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 20, 2006

A railroad passenger car of China

Passenger Transport of China by Railway: a double-deck sleeping car on a modern train in the People's Republic of China. This is train number 5801 from Urumqi railway station to Alashankou railway station; the photo was taken at Bole railway station, where the train stops for 6 minutes.

Rail is one of the principal means of transport in Mainland China. Over 10 billion passenger railway journeys occur every year. Many of these journeys are taken during the Spring Festival Transportation period; in 2006 the railway system of Mainland China transported more than 1.44 billion people during the festival period.

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