China-Mongolia-Russia train route completes trial   

新造中蒙俄聯運列車試運行

3月16日晚21時許，記者從二連浩特鐵路口岸獲悉，于3月12日從北京始發的中蒙俄試運行國際鐵路聯運新型客車K3/4次已于當晚21:00入境，目前一切順利。

Erenhot (CNS) -- The China-Mongolia-Russia trans-continent train K3/4 returned to China on Saturday night, finishing a smooth trial run.

Seventy crew members on 12 carriages were trained during the journey. Fuel-servicing, fire control and other equipment were also tested.

The train departed from Beijing on March 12 and went through Erenhot in north China's Inner Mongolia, then Zamyn-Uud and Ulan Bator in Mongolia, followed by Naushki and Ulan-Ude in Russia before arriving in Irkutsk.

The train will stop at 33 stations when put into service. Time needed for a single journey of 7,858 kilometers is 132 hours, or 13 days round trip.