The longest train journey in the world in 2021
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#2You might also enjoy this blog from someone who travelled the whole Vienna-Pyongyang route: https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
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#3Some comments from ~10 days earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29570640
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#4Moscow – Vladivostok is a great adventure
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#5Over a 6 month period in 2016 I did London to Beijing by train. I blogged/tweeted the The Trans Siberian leg of it https://tombh.co.uk/tweets-from-trans-siberia
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#6Moscow – Vladivostok is a great adventure
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#7It occurs to me that I've done nearly every leg on this route at some point. Except of course taking a different route through china and Vietnam since that high speed link through laos didn't exist 20 years ago.
I did that Thailand night train back and forth to Surat Thani at least a half dozen times back when I'd spend my winters there. It's probably my favorite of the bunch for sheer atmosphere.
It's a shame that night trains in general are vanishing these days. You used to be able to do Europe without ever staying in hostels, hopping the longest train you could find each night and waking in a new city.
Now you can go back and forth between Paris and Venice, and that's about it.
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#8It occurs to me that I've done nearly every leg on this route at some point. Except of course taking a different route through china and Vietnam since that high speed link through laos didn't exist 20 years ago. I did that Thailand night train back and forth to Surat Thani at least a half dozen times back when I'd spend my winters there. It's probably my favorite of the bunch for sheer atmosphere. It's a shame that n…
I did cologne to vienna this summer and it was lovely. Look up nightjet
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#9It occurs to me that I've done nearly every leg on this route at some point. Except of course taking a different route through china and Vietnam since that high speed link through laos didn't exist 20 years ago. I did that Thailand night train back and forth to Surat Thani at least a half dozen times back when I'd spend my winters there. It's probably my favorite of the bunch for sheer atmosphere. It's a shame that n…
I read that the EU is planning on giving high priority to trains, including night trains.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/europe-is-undergoing-a-slee...
I would really like to be able to use one of those
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#10It occurs to me that I've done nearly every leg on this route at some point. Except of course taking a different route through china and Vietnam since that high speed link through laos didn't exist 20 years ago. I did that Thailand night train back and forth to Surat Thani at least a half dozen times back when I'd spend my winters there. It's probably my favorite of the bunch for sheer atmosphere. It's a shame that n…
I read that the EU is planning on giving high priority to trains, including night trains. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/europe-is-undergoing-a-slee... I would really like to be able to use one of those
They are bringing them back.
Switzerland has also started Zürich to Amsterdam again just last month. They are using trains from the 70s as they currently do not have newer night travel equipped rail cars but are planning on adding a lot more routes. The Austrian rail ÖBB has been running nightjets for a while also from Zürich.
Although quite expensive the night rail has become very popular again.