Train ride - around the world.
I was reading today's newspaper about a (fantasy?) plan to dig a 65 mile rail tunnel between Russia and the USA under the Bering Striaght. What caught my imagination was the train trip that was sketched out in the paper:-
Mexico City, El Passo, Vancouver, Fairbanks, Anadyr, Magadan, Irkutsk, Omsk, Moscow and London. But this is only the short trip.:eek: Surely you would start at Cape Town and travel all the way up through Africa, Egypt, Iran (maybe not :D) and up to Moscow. Then east through Russia, "the Bering Tunnel", Canada, USA, Mexico and down through South America finishing at Buenos Aires, maybe. That would be an trip and a half.......... Wonder if you could get an Interrail ticket? |
You would have a hard time getting a train that runs in Zimbabwe or across the Sudan, but if it was possible! What a trip.
Syd |
I bet the ticket would be expensive it costs a bomb just for a short journey in UK. Does anyone know which counrty has the cheapest rail fares.
Alan Locojoe. |
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I suppose you would have to ignore in the theoretical planning the effect of politics or any war-zones:- unless they have actually torn up the tracks. (Although, from Michael Palin's documentries, politics and permissions are everything.) The Peruvian and Columbian railways dont look very interconnected either, so South America could be a challenge too.:( Maybe the original newspaper article was correct. Mexico to Western Europe is all (!) you could do in one train trip. |
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