Twenty-four passenger trains that were halted due to strong gales, resumed operations Tuesday afternoon in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said local railway bureau.

Around 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, all twenty-four passenger trains on two railway lines resumed operations as the winds had subsided, an official with the Urumqi Railway Bureau said.

Wind speeds reached 100 km per hour in some areas, and snowstorms also blasted some areas in Xinjiang on Monday.

The operations of 15 passenger trains traveling from the region's capital of Urumqi to Lanzhou, the capital of neighboring Gansu province, had been suspended since 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Another nine passenger trains running from Turpan to Kashgar along the railway line in southern Xinjiang had been halted since 9:45 p.m. Monday.