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Originally Posted by DSY011
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
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I suppose that was partly behind my post. Could a single (special mixed gauge) train physically travel from one end of Africa to the other? My school atlas does show a few gaps. It looks like you can get from Cape Town to Uganda OK, then you are a bit stuck and have a 500 mile walk to the next rail-head in the Sudan.
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.