Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...

China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China. The first train ...

The newly launched Qinghai-Tibet Railway will certainly bring a lot of travelers to Tibet, but it won't have a great impact on the local environment, Qiangba Punco, Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous ...

China unveils an engineering marvel this weekend–a railway to Tibet that features high-tech systems to stabilize tracks over permafrost and cabins enriched with oxygen to help riders cope with high ...

Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt terrible. As the railway ministry's boss of dining services, she had to ensure that some 800 passengers on the inaugural ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has passed safety and environmental tests and brought economic prosperity to formerly inaccessible Tibetan areas. Around 550 kilometers of the 1,956-km railway on the world's ...

Dubbed a "miracle" of engineering, the so-called Sky Train climbs to an elevation of 5,702m at the "roof of the world". The Qinghai-Tibet railway stretched before us right across the Himalayan ...

A train crosses a bridge outside of Lhasa on the new railway (epa) PRAGUE, August 11, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- China's new railway to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, is a remarkable engineering achievement.

2003-11-05 04:00:00 PDT Lhasa, Tibet-- Beijing's plan to pacify this restive Himalayan province involves a $3.2 billion railroad that will connect the rest of China to the frozen Tibetan plateau, ...

Sangye Puncog, 22, never saw a train until his high school graduation tour to Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Fascinated by the "steel giant," Sangye Puncog, a Tibetan ...