Reply to: Anyone been on the Orient Express?

[DaveB]

I quite fancy this one.

Canada Coast to Coast by rail.

https://www.railbookers.com/holidays...=itinerary-303

[stek]

If all else fails there is the 08:20 Esher to Clapham Junction

The 14:39 Waterloo to Brockenhurst train stops at Clapham Junction to set down only, what's the guard gonna do - stop anyone getting on using his speed of light skills?

[Paddy]

If all else fails there is the 08:20 Esher to Clapham Junction

[yasockie]

I would like to recommend the Bejing to Lhasa train.
It's a very modern line, and given how it's built on permafrost, it can literally melt away so I don't expect it to be operation for very long.
A truly unique experience IMO, the highest station is 5kms above the sea level.

For a bit of contrast, the train going in the other direction is the MAGLEV to Shanghai, going at 420km/h

[Paddy]

From £9,000 to £24,000 per person (2 weeks contract work?)


Jewels of Persia - Budapest to Tehran by Luxury Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6hEXCgUH7Q

[JRCT]

I can recommend The Golden Pass train through Switzerland. From Montreux to Lucerne via Interlaken. In Winter it is truly stunning.

First class, sat at the front of the train, driver upstairs. Amazing.

[minestrone]

I have been on the reunification express.

Just don't need a tulipe and you are OK.

[GlenW]

Been a long time gone, Constantinople.

That's nobody's business but the Turks

[DaveB]

Not Constantinople?

Been a long time gone, Constantinople.

[stek]

Once a year it still goes to Istanbul

Not Constantinople?

[SimonMac]

Read the wiki, it was the Paris - Istanbul train later curtailed to Vienna when I caught it but was still called 'The Orient Express' then.

Once a year it still goes to Istanbul

[stek]

Is it me or is Vienna not the Orient?

What's that über expensive luxury train that goes around Scotland? That also doesn't go to The Orient.

Read the wiki, it was the Paris - Istanbul train later curtailed to Vienna when I caught it but was still called 'The Orient Express' then.

[alreadypacked]

Winter time, why not Welcome to Luxury Trains of India

[VectraMan]

Paris - Vienna 1985

Is it me or is Vienna not the Orient?

What's that über expensive luxury train that goes around Scotland? That also doesn't go to The Orient.

[stek]

I've done the Transiberian, well, a third of it.

Boring.