The Tanggula (Dangla) railway station () is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

located in

Amdo County Amdo County (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetan grassland. In 2000 it had a population of 32,843 . Its capital is ...

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, near the border with the

Tanggula Town Tanggulashan (, ), or Dangla Town, is a town in the southwest of Qinghai province, China. It forms the southern exclave of the county-level city of Golmud, in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, partially administrated by Amdo County, ...

Qinghai Province Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest pop ...

. The railway station has three tracks, one of them served by a

platform Platform may refer to: Technology * Computing platform, a framework on which applications may be run * Platform game, a genre of video games * Car platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models * Weapons platform, a system or ...

, and another one served by a very short stub platform. Since its construction, Tanggula Station has been the highest railway station in the world.

Introduction

This unstaffed station on the Qingzang railway opened for service on July 1, 2006. The station is located above sea level – surpassing

Cóndor station Cóndor railway station on the Rio Mulatos-Potosí line, Bolivia, is the highest station in the western hemisphere, at an altitude of 4,786 m (15,700 ft) above sea level. It is located in a remote, mountainous area, with little around the statio ...

at on the

Rio Mulatos-Potosí line The Rio Mulatos- Potosí line is a railway line in Bolivia, containing Cóndor station, the world's ninth highest railway station (). It was the world's second (after Ticlio, in Peru) until the completion of the Tanggula railway station on the ...

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

and

Galera Station Galera may refer to: Places * Careiae, ancient city in Italy afterward called ''Galera'' * Galera railway station, in Peru, the highest railway station in the Western Hemisphere * Galera, Granada, a municipality in the province of Granada in Spai ...

at 4,781 m (15,681 feet) in

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

for title of highest railway station in the world. It is no more than 1 km (0.6 miles) away from the

highest point A list of highest points typically contains the name, elevation, and location of the highest point in each of a set of geographical regions. Such a list is important in the sport of highpointing. A partial list of highpoint lists is below: World ...

of rail track at . The station is long and covers . There are 3 rail tracks in the station. The location of the station was specially chosen for the view from the platform.

Schedules

As of 2010, no passenger transport service was available since the region is uninhabited. Although the train may stop at the station to wait for another train coming from the opposite direction to pass, passengers are required to remain on the train.

References

Stations on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway Railway stations in Tibet Amdo {{Tibet-railstation-stub

Introduction

Schedules

See also

References