China's Most Secured Railway: Night Train Chengdu - Lanzhou - Urumqi

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This is the second part of my journey aboard China Railways Night Train no. K2059 Chengdu - Urumqi;
That train travels via Lanzhou, Wuwei, Zhangye, and Turpan;
Our travel class: Soft Sleeper Car;
We are taking this train from Lanzhou to Zhangye in Gansu Province;
We are also visiting the Dining Car and eating Pork Belly;
This part covers the section between Gulang, Wuwei, Jinchang, and Zhangye;
The train is riding on the Lanxin Line (Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway) via the Hexi Corridor, which forms part of the Northern Silk Road;
00:00 Preview Summary
02:19 Inside Night Train Chengdu-Urumqi
03:41 Pork Belly in Dining Car
05:23 Wuwei Railway Station
09:48 Jinchang Railway Station
12:12 Lanxin Line (Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway)
14:52 Hexi Corridor (Northern Silk Road)
18:38 Inside Soft Sleeper Car
22:07 Zhangye Railway Station
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23 июл 2024

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@plonss 2 месяца назад

Enchanting and high quality image and sound editing as always ! Your content easily beats the most professional documentaries

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

thank you for your positive feedback

@GraemeBray 2 месяца назад

I was so looking forward to this. I loved travelling this route many times to Zhangye. Especially the sweeping bends West of Jinchang, watching our own train snake around each bend, then looking at the other trains higher or lower than us, as climb up higher. Although you did not highlight the sections is the Great Wall the rail line passes and runs alongside between Shandan and Zhangye. Walls and towers being of mudbrick construction, it is very different to what many people expect, used to the stone walls nearer Beijing. While they crumble into the dust.

@claudiahansen4938 2 месяца назад

Superb video. I have been watching all of your journeys with great pleasure…to visit places I know I will never see.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

yeah; northwest china is somehow difficult to get to

@ericdanielski4802 2 месяца назад

Nice video.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

oki

@minimoocher822 2 месяца назад

Another beautifully crafted video - a pleasure to watch once again. Thank you.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

thanks for the feedback

@jessaravena5139 2 месяца назад

A very nice and relaxing video Doc. The captions are interesting and stay on the screen long enough for me to read. I thought the video was a good length as I really like the long format videos. The longer the better for me. 😂 I loved seeing your Podstakanik, from your travels in Ukraine and how you always manage to get free hot water from the train’s titan. However, for me, a real highlight of your videos is your smiley sleeper night light that’s always changing colours. As almost all of this video was filmed in daylight, Smiley, (my nickname for him) was nowhere to be seen. 😢 Awwwww, maybe next time when you film overnight. 😅🎉

@ctyl5686 2 месяца назад

Excellent video and an education!! Small technical question, I mostly watch on a 3:2 aspect screen (e.g. iPad, Microsoft Surface) and ask if your captions could perhaps be sized to be fully visible when using a 'full screen 'RU-vid browser extension such as 'Zoom To Fill'?

@wm7531 Месяц назад

This old train route through Gansu was on the original Silk Road path. The new high speed railway between Lanzhou and Urumqi is a bit far from the Silk Road path and had encountered lots of geotechnical problems.

@doc7austin Месяц назад

this video shows the old train route, not the new high speed route between lanzhou and urumqi

@wm7531 Месяц назад

@@doc7austin Yes I know. You have shown the Hexi Corridor. The terrain in Gansu is amazing, looks like on Mars.

@ianhillsman7777 2 месяца назад

I very much enjoy viewing all your train journeys. Nice to see you brought your Ukrainian mug along with you. Can you tell us the story behind your LED "egg" that I see in many of your videos now?

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

actually the lamp is called brexitrailways; it has its own twitter account.

@jasonjarmoosh 2 месяца назад

Nice vid. A friend and I are looking to do the similar trip from chongqing to urumqi in july. Was your sleeper empty? Id love it if I could manage an empty soft sleeper room.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

some empty soft sleeper beds are sold 1-2 days before travel; thats when i snatched mine; usually, it is almost impossible to buy a soft sleeper bed in advance on those trains to xinjiang province

@jerry.s.project Месяц назад

How can i get the train ticket this route?

@AlokKumar-ws3by 2 месяца назад

Make the videos of videos shngai lhasa train journey from shangai to lhasa

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

i dont think i will go to lhasa anytime soon

@jfmezei 2 месяца назад

@@doc7austin The train line to Lhasa is very special. Climbs to above 5000m and the diesel engines are specially equipped to burn fuel in the thin atmosphere, and the rail cars have oxygen ports for masks in every room as well as for whole car. At higher elevations, the line is on permafrost which posed a lot of challenges to build.

@jfmezei 2 месяца назад

In a previous video in this series, it was interesting to hear people in sleeping car laugh. It is rare that one hears laughter in Asia. how did passengers treat you as westerner? leave you alone (perhaps affraid of police) or curiosity/interest in you? had to lookup Xinjiang province and now understand your reluctance. But if you took a train through to Urumqui and then connected to one to Kazakhstan would you have any troubles? How did they progressively make it harder and harder for you to film in the train? Is there any tourism there or do Chinese only travel for work or to eet with family? Hey, I have now seen enough of your videos that when you had brief clip from a "hard sleeper", I immediatly thought "platzkartny" 🙂

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

well, unfortunately the china-kazakhstan passenger rail link was cut at the onset of the pandemic in 2020; I hope it comes back; xinjiang province is a politically very sensitive area; foreigners filming critical infrastructure brings problems with it

@simonsmatthew 2 месяца назад

You would probably be less interested in that pork if you saw the pig farms - basically multistory skyscrapers.

@paulthiel5145 2 месяца назад

Nah, really don't care as long as it tastes good 😋

@simonsmatthew 2 месяца назад

@@paulthiel5145 Well that's capitalism, it devalues animals like it does labour in many countries and much of the environment. But no probs, bon appetite!

@paulthiel5145 2 месяца назад

@@simonsmatthew thanks, will manage

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

And the big farms in the US are any better ?

@archstanton5973 2 месяца назад

*DROOLING "simonsmatthews” IS THE CLASSIC BRAINWASHED MURCAN! VASSAL LACKEY THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO THOROUGHLY AND TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED THAT IT CANNOT EVEN REMOTELY BEGIN TO COMPREHEND HOW TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AND THOROUGHLY BRAINWASHED IT IS.

@netrhyda8761 2 месяца назад

My goodness, what a barren wasteland.....

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

i very much like the desert

@bradbel 2 месяца назад

IMAGINE IF PEOPLE TALKED THAT LOUD IN THE STATES. No thanks.

@constantineding8700 2 месяца назад

not as loud as gun fights😂 And no need to worry about pickpocket and drug issues.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

ever been to the UK at a night bar ?

@sellier-bellot22 2 месяца назад

@@doc7austin Straight yelling !!!😄😄

@simonsmatthew 2 месяца назад

Freedom for the Uighurs.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

no politics please

@simonsmatthew 2 месяца назад

@@doc7austin True, but you must not be a Polyanna in these travels. Not if you feel it is your duty to inform. There is a tragedy happening in this area. I am not saying there is not a complex story here, but as in Gaza, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tibet and West Papua, it is important people are aware. (The US is no better in this department of course; ask the indigenous Indians.) This is an important part of the area's identity, like its history. For people who face potential ethnic cleansing or genocide or simply annihilation through transmigration - of which these rail routes you are enjoying play a role - you must understand what it means to be continually called Chinese and the area you identify with as only North West China.

@doc7austin 2 месяца назад

@simonsmatthew The video shows Gansu Province. What is happening there exactly ? I didn't get you.

@simonsmatthew 2 месяца назад

@@doc7austin I suspect the problems there relate to Tibetan and Uighur minorities, although that area is now overwhelmingly Han Chinese. I would like to know the reasons for extensive security fencing and restrictions on filming. Perhaps it is linked to problems with assimiliation policies in the neighbouring provinces? It would be interesting, and perhaps quite important, to know.

@archstanton5973 2 месяца назад

@@simonsmatthew *“simonsmatthew” IS THE CLASSIC BRAINWASHED MURCAN! VASSAL LACKEY THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO THOROUGHLY AND TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED THAT IT CANNOT EVEN REMOTELY BEGIN TO COMPREHEND HOW TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AND THOROUGHLY BRAINWASHED IT IS.*