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Kunming-Vientiane through train

Luxury train in Laos

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Kunming-Vientiane through train, also known as Sino-Laos international passenger train. It operates between Kunming, Yunnan to Vientiane, Laos under the train no. D87/88. Operation commenced on 13 April 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kunming-Vientiane through train” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.