记者来鸿：兰新高铁—大风中的子弹头

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戴维•贝利, 记者来鸿：兰新高铁—大风中的子弹头. BBC Chinese, Feb 18, 2015.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/fooc ... desert_bullet_train

My comment:
(a) I cannot find the English-language original.

(b) "从乌鲁木齐启程，子弹头首先在塔克拉玛干和戈壁沙漠之间向东南方行驶。透过两边车窗，我偶尔能瞄到，空旷的大地上耸立着一排排风力涡轮。我说 '瞄，' 是因为铁轨两侧绵延不绝的金属护栏阻挡着视线。 * * * 同行的一位旅客给我上了一课。 * * * 他故作神秘地探过身、压低了嗓音说，'两年前，一列火车被吹翻，有人死了呢！这么快的火车，没有防风栏，我们全得死！'”

Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (兰新高铁, also known as 兰新铁路第二双线)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzhou-Xinjiang_High-Speed_Railway
Unlike the existing Lanxin railway, which runs entirely in Gansu and Xinjiang, the new high-speed rail is routed from Lanzhou to Xining in Qinghai Province; the entire "line opened on Dec 26, 2014;"  "In 2007, strong wind overturned a train [just leaving Turpan station  吐鲁番地区吐鲁番市] on Lanxin Railway, and four people were killed. A 67 kilometres (42 mi) long wind-protection gallery has been built next to the tracks in this region[12]")
(i) Footnote 12 is a video clip: 兰新铁路第二双线联调联试：高速动车 大风中如何安稳前行？ CCTV, June 4, 2014
, which demonstrates both 挡风墙 (on both sides of the tracks, which the second BBC does not show) and a tunnel 防风明洞 (view it in images,google.com).
(ii) 兰新铁路第二双线创高铁建设历史上多项之 '最.' 人民网, Nov 17, 2014.
leaders.people.com.cn/n/2014/1117/c376846-26040831.html

(c) "从鄯善 Shanshan [吐鲁番地区 鄯善县 (on the eatern border of 吐鲁番市)] 开始，高铁线拐了个弯儿，工程很有挑战性、而且很奇妙。穿过祁连山脉，进入青藏高原  [through Xining]，然后又拐回更平常的低地路线。看了看地图，我意识到，这就是我那位维族朋友画的弧线。我明白了他的谨慎暗示。抛开所有的经济利益，这也是一条政治线，是要显示出北京向回、藏两个民族聚居省份伸出了手。