THE WORLD'S MOST EPIC TRAIN JOURNEY

摘要

Every walk of life has an 'ultimate', an ambition every devotee would like to experience or achieve. For the mountaineer, it is Everest, for the lover of fine architecture it is the Taj Mahal. For the general rail enthusiast ... it is the Trans-Siberian Railway. At well over 6,000 miles in length (that's the equivalent of London to Arizona as the crow flies), this really is The Big One'. It is the longest single service rail route on the face of the planet, traversing nine time zones and two continents on its way from Europe to the Orient. It makes the 'Orient Express', the 'Indian Pacific', South Africa's 'Blue Train' and even the various trans-American journeys seem like mere excursions.