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Weary pilgrims, attending the Sunning of the Buddha Festival in the Chinese city of Xining (the capital of Qinghai Province), board the Qinghai-Tibet train for the 26-hour trip home to Lhasa, capital of Tibet Province.Whilst asleep, the train will be supervised by the railway’s control centre, which displays real-time information on the train’s location, speed, oxygen levels, and electrical system.The control centre is a partnership between Qinghai-Tibet Railway Bureau and the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, at Beijing Jiaotong University. Together, they have developed a monitoring system for railway operation and safety for the Tibetan line.Close monitoring is critical as the train ascends from Xining (2,275 metre) to cross a remote Himalayan plateau at 4000 metre altitude, before reaching their destination 1900 kilometers away.When the railway section between Golumd (the second largest city of Qinghai province) and Lhasa opened in July, it set numerous worldwide engineering Read more…