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Top Railway Journeys of the World
26 great railway journeys described and illustrated by lovely colour photos of the views, the trains and whatever else makes them so special. Top Railway Journeys of the World presents and imaginative selection of routes, from a 20-mile line in southern France in a train which takes two-and-a-half hours to cover it to those ultimate extra-long journeys like the Trans-Siberian or the Indian Pacific route across Australia. The book includes the highest passenger route – Puno to Cusco, the steepest – the Khyber Pass, the most chic – the Orient Express, and much more. In addition to numerous glossy photos each chapter also has a small map showing the route.The full list of journeys covered by this book is:CANADA – Toronto to Vancouver; USA – the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, the Denver and Rio Grande railroads, the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge railroad, and the Cumbres and Toltec line; MEXICO – The Copper Canyon Railway; PERU – Puno to CuzcoGREAT BRITAIN – the Settle to Carlisle line and the Royal Scotsman Edinburgh / Highlands Circuit; FRANCE – the Vivarais Line; GERMANY – the Rhine circuit between Cologne and Mainz; SWITZERLAND – the Glacier Express from Zermatt to St Moritz; SPAIN – El Transcantabrico across Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, plus the Al Andalus circuit from Seville: NORWAY – the Flam Railway from Myrdal to Flรฅm ACROSS EUROPE and/or ASIA – The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express between Venice to London, plus the Trans-Mongolian and the Trans-Siberian Expresses, Beijing to Moscow and Moscow to Vladivostok.PAKISTAN – The Khyber Pass route from Lahore via Peshawar to the Khyber Pass; INDIA – the Darjeeling Himalayan line, plus the Royal Orient Express from Delhi to Rajasthan and Gujarat; SINGAPORE /MALAYSIA/THAILAND – the Eastern and Oriental Express from Singapore via Penang to Bangkok; CHINA and VIETNAM – the Beijing to Hanoi routeAUSTRALIA: the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs, plus the Indian Pacific route from Sydney to Perth; NEW ZEALAND – The TranzAlpine route from Christchurch across the Alps to Greymouth.AFRICA ‘“ the Blue Train from Pretoria to Cape Town, plus the Pride of Africa route from Cape Town via the Victoria Falls to Dar Es Salaam.