China–India Railway or Sino Indian Railway (
Chinese: ä¸å°é“è·¯) are a number of planned railways between China and India:
Most advanced in plans, technically not entering India but still bearing the name, 460 km standard gauge 120-160 km/h railway to link
Yadong on Indo-Chinese border with current railhead
Shigatse Railway Station, Tibet, and possibly onward with break of gauge (
broad gauge) and continuing to Sikkim and beyond, pending politics. Land ports and trans-shipment is more likely. This line may share a good part of its routing with
China-Nepal railway towards
Gyirong and
Kathmandu.[1] Following
2020 China–India skirmishes, China seems keen to hasten Tibet rail projects. The Indian government is constructing a rail link which is planned to be extended up to the border at
Nathu La (
Sivok–Rangpo line).[2]
Another different (conventional) line would begin in
Kunming, through Ruili,
Myitkyina, and end in
Ledo, India, final construction on 160 km/h standard gauge line toward
Ruili Station is finishing up, this u/c section of it is called
Dali–Ruili railway, while international points beyond on this routing have yet to commit. Myanmar has expressed interest to extend Ruili route to
Mandalay in its place, all points beyond pending.[citation needed]
Farther fetched proposals for high speed trains between China and India have been floated as generic abstract concepts without feasibility study.[citation needed]
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