Berths/Seats and Tickets of Qinghai-Tibet Trains

The Qinghai-Tibet tranis are specially built for high altitude environments by CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive Co., Ltd. On the Qinghai-Tibet trains, there are three kinds of train tickets: soft sleeper berths, hard sleeper berths and hard seats.

Soft Sleeper Berth Ticket / First-Class Seat

On a Tibet train, there are 2 soft sleeper cars with a seating capacity of 32 persons. Total is 64 berths every train. There are 4 berths in each compartments, two upper and two lower.  

The berths with pillows and quilts on it are clean and comfortable. The width of berth is 75cm and the length is 190cm. They are spacious enough for tall passengers. Each compartment have plenty of luggage space respectively beneath the lower berths and beside the upper berths. There are a table, TV Screen, oxygen outlets, clothes hangers and a lockable door equipped in them.

Soft Sleeper

Hard Sleeper Berth Ticket / Second-Class Seat

Each Tibet train has 8-11 hard sleeper cars with a seating capacity of 66 persons. Total is 528 to 726 persons. There are 6 berths in each compartments, two upper, two middle and two lower.

There are pillows and quilts on each berth. There are also clean and comfortable. But the compartment are a little crowed. The width of a berth is 60cm and the length is 180 cm. So there is no door for a hard sleeper compartment, which is comfortable for most of passengers.  Each compartment also has luggage space respectively beneath the lower berths and beside the upper berths.

Hard Sleeper of Qinghai Tibet Trains

Hard Seat Ticket

The hard seat ticket is the cheapest ticket for your travelling to Tibet. A Tibet train has 4 hard seat cars with a seating capacity of 98 persons. Total is 393 persons.

If you want to see more scenery through train window and prefer to chat with other passengers about your Tibet journey, hard seat is a good choice for you. But you need to prepare for the long journey well because you are not able to lie down to get good sleep, which is something you need before arriving in Tibet to help you acclimatize to the high altitude.