Northern Shan State Railway

Railway over Goteik viaduct

Northern Shan State Railway is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) gauge railway line in Myanmar's Shan State, operated by Myanmar Railways. The line runs from Mandalay Central Railway Station to Lashio Station in 11 hours, it is under proposal extending towards the Yunnan border from the current terminus with dual gauge rails. The section from Lashio to Muse and Yunnan is expected to be interoptable with both Chinese and Myanmar trains. There are a number of spur lines. There is another proposed project to allow Chinese trains to run 900 km from Kunming all the way to Kyaukpyu under Build-Operate-Transfer.^[1] Major stops in Pyin Oo Lwin, Kyaukme, Hsipaw.

Stations

• Mandalay Central Railway Station via Myo Haung junction.
• (4) Myo Haung 382 3/4
• (24) Thoe Gyan 385 1/4 (Junction) to Tha Ye Ze
• (25) Tonbo 392 3/4 Spur Line to the quarry
• (26) Sedaw 396 1/4 Spur Line to the quarry
• (27) Sa Tu Ta Lun Hto 400 1/4 Zig Zag railway
• (28) Zi Pin Gyi 405
• (29) Thondaung 411
• (30) Anisakan 415
• (31) Pyin U Lwin 422 1/2
• (32) Pwe Kaul 427 3/4
• (33) Wet Wun 433 1/2
• (34) Sin Lan Su 438 1/4
• (35) Hsam Ma Hse 444
• (36) Nawnghkio 456
• (37) Gokteik 463 Gokteik Viaduct
• (38) Nawngpeng 472 1/4
• (39) Sa Khan Tha 482
• (40) Kyaukme 490
• (41) Loi Hkaw 496
• (42) Taw Gyi 504
• (43) Hsipaw 509 1/2
• (44) Ta Hpa Le 521
• (45) Sun Lon -
• (46) Se-eng 529 1/4
• (47) Man Sam Ye Da Gun (Man Sam Waterfall) 537 1/4
• (48) Man Pwe 543
• (49) Thi Ri Shan Hkai 545 1/4
• (50) Nam-yau 547 3/4 (Junction) to Namtu Mine Railway
• (51) Lashio 560 3/4

under proposal

• Muse Station

References