{"id":153819,"date":"2026-07-01T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153819"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:30:09","slug":"qinghai-tibet-railway-worlds-highest-begins-operation-in-2006-scmp-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153819","title":{"rendered":"Qinghai-Tibet railway, world\u2019s highest, begins operation in 2006 \u2013 SCMP archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was originally published on July 2, 2006<br \/>\n\u2018Sky trains\u2019 begin first run to roof of the world<br \/>\nby Shi Jiangtao<br \/>\nThe first train from Beijing to Lhasa on the world\u2019s highest railway pulled out of the West Railway Station at 9.30pm, packed with 600 excited passengers and 100 journalists on what some described as a hotel on wheels.<br \/>\nTrains earlier left from Golmud and Chengdu.<br \/>\nFor Lhasa student Bianba, it meant more opportunities to return home to see family.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s much cheaper to go home by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3359000\/qinghai-tibet-railway-worlds-highest-begins-operation-2006-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was originally published on July 2, 2006 \u2018Sky trains\u2019 begin first run to roof of the world by Shi Jiangtao The first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}