World Record Title: The world's highest railway: Qinghai-Tibet Railway
World Record Creator: Qinghai-Tibet Railway
World Record Holder: Qinghai-Tibet Railway
World Record Field: Rail
World Record Rules: The world's highest railway.
World Record Number: 20121000047
World Record Validity Period: Until world record was broken.
World Record Witness: Carrying the Flag World Records certifier 001
World Records Source: World record database of Carrying the Flag
Awarding Certificate Date: October 12, 2012
World Record Details:
         The world's highest railway: Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

         Tibet Railway from Golmud in Qinghai east, west Tibet, Lhasa, 1,142 km length, passing through Nachitai, five beams, Tuotuohe, Yanshiping, over the Tanggula, via Tibet Amdo, Nagqu, when the male, Yangbajin to Lhasa. Where an altitude of 4,000 meters above the road 960 km, 550 km permafrost region, over the highest point of the railway Tanggulashan 5072 meters above sea level, it is the world's highest and longest plateau railway.