The Lancun−Yantai railway or Lanyan railway () is a double-track, electrified railway in

Shandong Province Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. The line runs from

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao ...

on the north coast of the

Shandong Peninsula The Shandong Peninsula or Jiaodong (tsiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou. Geography The waters ...

southwest to Lancun, near

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

, on the Jiaozhou–Jinan railway and has a total length of .(Chinese
"蓝烟铁路电气化工程完工时速提高到120公里" ''齐鲁网''
2010-08-30 It was built from 1953 to 1956 and double-tracked in 2001.(Chinese
"蓝烟铁路电气化改造正稳步推进"
2009-10-13 Electrification work, completed in 2010, raised train speed on the line from to . The Qingdao–Rongcheng intercity railway runs approximately parallel to this line for most of its route.

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