What is the current status of the Yunnan Vietnam Railway? Can the Yunnan Vietnam Railway still work?

The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is an international railway line connecting China and Vietnam, starting from Kunming, China, and ending in Hanoi, Vietnam. At present, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway has been fully connected, but the construction of the entire railway line has gone through decades of hard work, the time span is very long, and the construction is also very difficult. Here are some facts about the current situation of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway:

1.The total length of the line is about 860 kilometers, with 475 kilometers in China and 385 kilometers in Vietnam. 2.

The Yunnan-Vietnam Tan Phongdan Railway passes through Yunnan and Guangxi regions in China, as well as Hannoi, Thanh Hoa and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. 3.The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is an important international railway trunk line, which provides important convenience for the first-class, economic and cultural exchanges between China and Vietnam.

4.The construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is very difficult, because it needs to cross mountains and plateaus, and faces complex geographical and climatic conditions. 5.

In recent years, China and Vietnam** have made significant investments in the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, renovating and expanding it to improve the operational efficiency and safety of the line. In short, despite the hardships in the construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, it is an important international railway trunk line after all, which is of great significance to promoting the first-class, economic and cultural exchanges between China and Vietnam.

1. Yunnan-Vietnam Railway (Yunnan-Vietnam Railway) is a railway connecting Kunming, China and Haiphong Port of Vietnam (through the mouth of the Sino-Vietnamese port) in Southeast Asia, and is the first railway in southwest China. The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is called the third largest project in the world comparable to the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal by "Britain**".

2. In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the French chose the design scheme of the Eastern Front and planned its construction. Construction began in 1901 and was completed and opened to traffic in 1903. The Yunnan section was started in 1903 and completed on April 1, 1910, and the whole line was opened to traffic.

3. The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway starts from Kunming North Railway Station and ends at Haiphong Station in Vietnam. The total length of the line is 859 kilometers (465 kilometers in the Yunnan section and 394 kilometers in the Yue section). There are 34 stations on the whole line, and many of the original stations have been demolished or reduced to boarding and landing stations.

From June 1st to 16th, due to the impact of the highway connecting Kunming to Honghe Prefecture on the passenger income of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, the serious damage to the roadbed, and the aging of the railway, the Yunnan section of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway stopped passenger transportation together with the Jasper Railway, and only retained the freight, and the cross-section was still used for both passengers and freight.

On June 15, the commuter train resumed traffic between Kunming Shizui Station and Chenggong Wangjiaying Station, as a section line for tourism and railway workers.

On February 23, the Yumeng Railway was opened to traffic, connecting with the Kunyu Railway and replacing part of the functions of the Kunhe Railway, which was close to suspension.

On December 1, the reconstruction of the Menghe railway section of the newly electrified double-track Kunyu River quasi-gauge railway was completed, and the whole line was opened to traffic. On December 10, the Menghe Railway was opened for passenger transport, that is, the entire line of the Kunyuhe Railway was opened to passenger traffic, connecting to Kunming Station, and then opened the train number from Hekou North Station to Lijiang Station. The Kunhe Railway was changed to a railway line that assists freight and crosses passenger transport.

Since then, the import and export of goods on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, except for the trains of the meter-gauge line, need to be reloaded at Hekou North Station.

From March to April, the commuter train from Kunming Wangjiaying Station to Shizui Station via Kunming North Station was suspended due to equipment maintenance. In May of the same year, it resumed operation.

Since December 13, due to the need to dismantle the railway for the construction of Kunming Rail Transit Line 4, the commuter train between Shizui Station and Wangjiaying Station has been suspended for two and a half years, and it is expected to be restored and rebuilt in the first half of 2020 after the construction of Line 4 is completed, and it has the operating conditions.

On the morning of July 20, Kaiyuan Station, which had been silent for 15 years, was opened again. With the strong support of China Railway Kunming Bureau Group, Kaiyuan City relies on the meter-gauge railway of the existing Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to build it into a north-south rail transit bus train. As a scenic railway, there are 7 stations on this section of the railway.

There are 7 daily departures from 7:30 a.m. to 7:50 p.m., with a running time of 40 minutes.

On March 10, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway opened up the intercontinental sea-rail rough intermodal transport channel for the first time, transporting goods from Oceania for the first time.

Yunnan's eighteen strange "trains do not pass through the country and abroad" refers to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. In 1898, the Qing Dynasty of China agreed to the construction of a railway from French Indochina (present-day Vietnam) to Yunnan. The railway runs from Haiphong Port in Vietnam to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, with a total length of 855 kilometers and a track gauge of 1 meter.

Among them, the section from Haiphong to Lao Cai is in Vietnam, with a total length of 389 kilometers. Construction began in 1901 and was completed and opened to traffic in 1903. The section from Hekou to Kunming is the Yunnan border, with a total length of 466 kilometers.

Construction began in 1903, was completed on April 1, 1910, and the whole line was opened to traffic the following year. After China's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the railway stopped "going abroad". It was reopened to traffic in the 90s of the 20th century, and it was not until 2004 that the century-old meter-gauge railway officially ceased operation.

However, those old train drivers retain vivid memories of the meter gauge, a master surnamed Xiao recalled, "From Caoba to Hekou Station more than 200 kilometers of line, there is hardly a straight line, the railway bends around, like a snake walking, plus the slope is rapid, the speed of the train is often less than 30 kilometers per hour." It is very appropriate to use "a serpentine railway, a crawling train" to describe the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

During the construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, there was no war between China and France, and it was built in peace.