26 great railway journeys described & illustrated by lovely colour photos of the views, the trains & whatever else makes them so special. Top Railway Journeys of the World presents & imaginative selection of routes, from a 20-mile line in southern France in a train which takes two-&-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, & 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 & Rio Grande railroads, the Durango & Silverton narrow gauge railroad, & the Cumbres & Toltec line; MEXICO
- The Copper Canyon Railway; PERU
- Puno to Cuzco GREAT BRITAIN
- the Settle to Carlisle line & the Royal Scotsman Edinburgh / Highlands Circuit; FRANCE
- the Vivarais Line; GERMANY
- the Rhine circuit between Cologne & 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 Flåm ACROSS EUROPE and/or ASIA
- The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express between Venice to London, plus the Trans-Mongolian & the Trans-Siberian Expresses, Beijing to Moscow & 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 & Gujarat; SINGAPORE /MALAYSIA/THAILAND
- the Eastern & Oriental Express from Singapore via Penang to Bangkok; CHINA & VIETNAM
- the Beijing to Hanoi route AUSTRALIA: the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs, plus the Indian Pacific route from Sydney to Perth; NEW ZEALAND
- The Tranz Alpine 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.