HN listed in Top 8 most weirdest train places

April 20, 2017 9:00 AM GMT+7

VGP – Railroad in ancient streets in Ha Noi was named in the list of eight trains that pass through the weirdest places.

1.The train that passes through a residential building

Due to the unique topography and high construction density of Chongqing, one of the most populated cities in China, architects and city planners had to come up with a unique way of developing a vital monorail line. Their solution—having the train pass straight through a 19-floor apartment building.

2. The narrow street that has a train passing through it

Most of the time, railroad tracks are expertly marked, warning passersby to keep a look out for oncoming trains, but what if the tracks were just steps from your front door? This is the case for many in Ha Noi. On a busy city street, people live and work alongside the railroad tracks found in the city's Old Quarter, and only move temporarily when the train passes. Shops are shut down, and immediately re-opened just as soon as it as it brushes past.

3. The trains that pass through the world's longest rail tunnel

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel was officially opened in Switzerland in 2016, after almost two decades of construction work. The 57km (35-mile) twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel provides a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe. Goods that until recently were carried on the route by a million vehicles a year are now able to go by train instead. The tunnel has overtaken Japan's 53.9km Seikan rail tunnel as the longest in the world and pushed the 50.5km Chunnel, linking the UK and France, into third place.

4. The train that crosses an airport runway

Gisborne Airport is a regional airport that is situated on the western outskirts of Gisborne, New Zealand. It is one of the very few airports in the world that has a railway line intersecting the runway. The airport covers 160 hectares with three grass runways and one main runway that are crossed by the Palmerston North-Gisborne Railway Line. The airport also has a single terminal with two tarmac gates.

5. The train that runs along the Brusio Viaduct

The Brusio is a single track, nine-arched, spiral railway viaduct located in Brusio, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Like most spiral tracks, it was built to permit trains to get elevation in a relatively short distance. It is 110 meters long, has a horizontal curvature of 70 meters, a longitudinal slope of 7%, and its nine spans are 10 meters each in length. It forms part of the Bernina Railway section between Brusio and Campascio, and is about 55 km from St. Moritz.

6. The trains that cross on top of a causeway

The Hindenburgdamm is an 11 km-long causeway joining the North Frisian island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It was opened in 1927 exclusively for rail transport.

7. The Chinese train that plans to run 13,000 miles to the US

China plans to build an ambitious 13,000 km rail line to operate bullet trains to America through Russia by passing through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean. The proposed line beginning from China's could go through Siberia, the Bering Strait, Alaska, and Canada before reaching the contiguous U.S. Once the line is put to use, bullet trains can run at 350 km per hour, enabling passengers to travel from China to the US in less than two days. Russia, which is heavily dependent on rail transport like China, is also progressively advocating the idea.

8. The trains that pass through Bloomer Cut

When they were first constructing the railroad through Auburn, California (in the 1860s), they had to make some deep cuts west of town and built a long (100 ft tall by 500 ft long) timber trestle bridge across Deep Gulch. When Bloomer Cut was completed in 1864, it was hailed as the “Eighth Wonder of the World” and has remained virtually unchanged. The cut is one of few Transcontinental Railroad landmarks that has survived the ravages of time./.

By Kim Anh