• Inside a passenger seating area of a high-speed train being tested at the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in Hebei province, China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Inside a passenger seating area of a high-speed train being tested at the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in Hebei province, China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • High-speed railway model CRH380B trains being tested at a production line of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    High-speed railway model CRH380B trains being tested at a production line of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • An employee works on a final assembly line for CRH380B, a high speed train model. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    An employee works on a final assembly line for CRH380B, a high speed train model. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • Hard hats at a production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    Hard hats at a production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • A train driver walks into a passenger seating area of a high-speed train being tested inside the Tangshan Railway Vehicle facility in Hebei province. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    A train driver walks into a passenger seating area of a high-speed train being tested inside the Tangshan Railway Vehicle facility in Hebei province. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • An employee works on a high-speed train model CRH380B at a final assembly line of Tangshan Railway Vehicle’s factory in Hebei province, China. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    An employee works on a high-speed train model CRH380B at a final assembly line of Tangshan Railway Vehicle’s factory in Hebei province, China. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • A worker walks past an almost completed high-speed train at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    A worker walks past an almost completed high-speed train at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • An employee works on a production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle’s factory. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    An employee works on a production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle’s factory. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • Technicians work on the interior cables of a train car at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Technicians work on the interior cables of a train car at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • High-speed trains are docked at a commissioning and testing facility of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    High-speed trains are docked at a commissioning and testing facility of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
  • Inside the production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    Inside the production line of parts for CRH380B, a high speed train model of Tangshan Railway Vehicle. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • Completed train cars at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in Hebei province, China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA
    Completed train cars at an assembly plant of the Tangshan Railway Vehicle in Hebei province, China. Rolex Dela Pena / EPA

Full speed ahead for China’s Tangshan Railway Vehicle — in pictures


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Take a tour of Tangshan Railway Vehicle’s manufacturing facility in the Hebei province of China. Founded in 1881, Tangshan is the first Chinese railway equipment manufacturing company and prides itself in building the first Chinese locomotive ‘Rocket of China’.