from Chinese investment and, more recently, Japanese investment was spent on the Hai Van Tunnel project, a new road tunnel alongside the north-south rail line near Da Nang. At a more local level, the picturesque hill town and resort of Đà Lạt was once connected by a scenic little rack railway to the main north-south line at Thap Cham. Although there is now little visible trace of the trackbed in the green and fertile landscape, local businesses have secured a promise of government funding for its reinstatement, to benefit tourism in the area. Currently, the only railway at Đà Lạt is an remnant from the old railway connection that runs from Đà Lạt station to the nearby village of Trại Mát. This is run as a tourist attraction. Other projects likely to receive foreign money are proposed light rail systems within Hanoi. High-speed rail plans on hold Vietnam Railways also planned a high-speed standard gauge link from its capital Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, capable of running at . It was planned to have an initial travel time of 9 hours and to make a series of improvements over time to eventually reduce the time to 5 hours. The current single track line has journey times from just under thirty hours. The funding of the $33 billion line was to come mostly from the Vietnamese government, with the help of Japanese aid (on the understanding that Japanese firms would engineer the bulk of the project). In 2010, there was an unsuccessful push to fund the project, and efforts to promote the project have fallen off since then. The timetable called for the initial construction (the 9-hour line) to be completed in 2016, and the line improvements (the 5-hour line) by 2025. At one point, the Vietnamese prime minister had set a target to complete the line by 2013. Approval was delayed several times, and in May 2010, the plan was finally rejected by the government. Locomotives Overview Routes North-South Local Hanoi-Beijing Lines Hanoi-Saigon Railway Hanoi-Lao Cai Railway Hanoi-Quan Trieu Railway Hanoi-Dong Dang Railway Hanoi-Haiphong Railway Kep-Ha Long Railway Stations Saigon station Nha Trang station Diêu Trì station Quảng Ngãi station Đà Nẵng station Huế station Đồng Hới station Vinh station Hải Phòng station Hanoi station Đồng Đăng station Lào Cai station Biên Hòa station Bồng Sơn station Đức Phổ station Núi Thành station