On 24 April 2020, a construction crew began laying and connecting switches at Golmudhe signal station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway. The work marked the formal connection of the Golmud–Korla line, known as GeKu, with the existing route. Golmudhe lay southwest of Golmud station and served as the junction point where the new railway could meet the Qinghai–Tibet line.
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Where Two Railways Meet at Golmud
A 2020 junction project connected the Golmud–Korla Railway with the existing Qinghai–Tibet line through a new switch installation at Golmudhe.
A junction built into the existing line
A route across regional boundaries
GeKu begins in Golmud and runs west through Mangya toward Korla in Xinjiang. When the full line opened in December 2020, Xinhua described it as joining the Qinghai–Tibet Railway and extending the rail network toward southern Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet. The junction is a piece of railway geography rather than a single station building: switches, existing track and the new line made a connection possible, while Golmud became the point where these routes met.