Great Train Journeys of the World


	Great Train Journeys of the World

mickfinn

4-7-2008 11:35 AM

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4-7-2008 1:13 PM

zizzy

www.seat61.com - excellent advice on how to travel by train and ship.

4-7-2008 4:27 PM

kkcapricorn

Beautiful. You find the most awesome things to clip.
If you posted the other one too soon, why not just delete it?

4-7-2008 5:38 PM

alanocu

superb clip!

4-7-2008 7:39 PM

mickfinn

@kk:

It was a very hectic and stressy weekend. Brain not that quick. But what the heck, people have been kind enough to clip both and comment. That is something about clippers that does appeal: Whatever the mess up, tolerance is usually to the fore. And, thanks for your other comment.

4-8-2008 4:05 AM

merrie

Train-travel is just more romantic.

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This takes you over the highest rail summit in the Alps – 7,405 feet up</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/24A745D8-E1A8-45E5-A332-10073942D22A" alt="The Bernina Express train in Switzerland from Chur to Tirano in Italy crossing the Brussio viaduct" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Vacations</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/E3A8A5BC-E514-4871-9793-05278D6337F0" alt="Rocky Mountaineer, Bow River by Lake Louise, Alberta" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>South Africa: Rovos Rail</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">
Now regarded as superior to the Blue Train for quality and service</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/4C772309-DAA2-4067-8D82-F6796AF7399F" alt="Rovos Rail" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">Observation cars allow 
  unrivalled views across the bush</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/86098E17-E282-471C-987A-14FCDBBABEED" alt="The Rovos Rail, luxurious train travelling between Cape town and Pretoria" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>Russia: Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">
The world’s longest train journey at nearly 6,000 miles</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">provides comfort unknown 
  since Tsarist times</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/966BEC9E-7A5F-4ACF-8649-14E9A7041660" alt="Golden Eagle Train on the Trans-Siberian Express Route" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>South East Asia: Eastern & Oriental Express </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">1,262-mile journey from Bangkok to Singapore</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/3AD7C218-75B9-4CE3-965E-9EB40700E0C5" alt="The Eastern & Oriental Express travelling between Singapore and Butterworth" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>North America: California Zephyr </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">
The Amtrak trip on the California Zephyr runs through the heart of the Rocky 
  Mountains</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/BF6D1DD2-2E1A-4F12-8101-985D90438A0F" alt="Amtrak's California Zephyr in the Rockies on its journey from Chicago to San Francisco" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>Great Britain: Northern Belle</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">
The Flying Scotsman used to be the way to see the Scottish Highlands. Now 
  there's another – the Northern Belle</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/778B5532-EB73-491A-98CE-71ED1908A42C" alt="Northern Belle enroute between Fort William and Mallaig" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>Europe: Venice Simplon-Orient-Express </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/66D52639-B244-45BF-955E-463C511FF5B0" alt="The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express near Lake Leman, Switzerland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><B>Japan: The Shinkansen </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">The Bullet Train, as it is better known, is closer to a rocket 
  than a train</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/561EE25A-4E7C-4117-AA62-91D2D43B9824" alt="Shinkansen bullet train pulls out of the commercial shopping district of Ginza" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html">
On the Tokyo to Kyoto Bullet Train trip, the adrenaline rush is the train 
  itself</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/941316/10-great-rail-journeys.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/C61A0ECA-CDDD-40C4-8617-AA5AE00F1787" alt="Nozomi Bullet train Japan shinkansen platform " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B111D94-01A5-495A-8A95-7C1A10B16D2C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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