Recreational train journeys
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If you're retired.
Seen an awesome one in Northern India on some documentary, can't remember the name of the line for the life of me but I'd love to travel it. It's like colonial India, everything is more or less the same as the British left it
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Yes, including the tracks and points.
Wish I had the funds available to do some of the Australian train journeys , Indian Pacific 2704 miles runs from Sydney to Perth, The Ghan 1851miles Darwin to Adelaide.
The Rockies & New Zealand are other trains journeys that appeal to me.
I particularly like the narrow gauge railways, you get tighter curves, switchbacks,more excitement with them, did a lot of the welsh ones 20 years ago.
The Rockies & New Zealand are other trains journeys that appeal to me.
I particularly like the narrow gauge railways, you get tighter curves, switchbacks,more excitement with them, did a lot of the welsh ones 20 years ago.
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Works well in places with vast areas of open countryside, slightly less so within europe, though of course the orient express still does a fine job indeed, and not at all within the UK as there really is nothing that you'd really want to look out at except for a few short sections of track.
I would look at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/journeysbyrail/9671916/Rail-holidays-the-best-tour-operators.html for more information, bit pricey though, makes british rail look like a bargain.
I would look at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/journeysbyrail/9671916/Rail-holidays-the-best-tour-operators.html for more information, bit pricey though, makes british rail look like a bargain.
Actually as I recall it the tracks get washed away by landslides and monsoons fairly regularly! They work like **** to get the trains running again, unlike British railways
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How the **** do you come up with this stuff?
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IN all seriousness a train trip around India sounds like it would be fantastic.
The only thing that bothers me is the risk of the train being set on fire by one of the warring religions which they seem to have done a couple of times. or derailing it.
The only thing that bothers me is the risk of the train being set on fire by one of the warring religions which they seem to have done a couple of times. or derailing it.
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Ones which exactly match your description are limited pretty much to North America. The Canadian ones in particular however are absolutely eyewateringly expensive - it is very much luxury travel and the price certainly reflects it. Very popular with retired people as they are the only ones who can justify the cost 