05-27-2021, 08:53 PM
We have a thread about Unusual towns and cities, for sharing and discussing the oddities of our urban settlements. However, sometimes it's not just the cities themselves that are odd - but the journeys between them . Here's a thread for discussing roads, railways and other journeys that are extreme or unusual in some way - whether it's because they're so long, so short, so expensive, so dangerous, or anything else you can think of .
I'll start with the following video, about the longest train services in the world:
This lists some of the longest train services in each country; however, I'll just summarise the longest of all:
So, does anybody know of any more extreme or unusual journeys?
I'll start with the following video, about the longest train services in the world:
This lists some of the longest train services in each country; however, I'll just summarise the longest of all:
- The third-longest train service is the six-day, 5,582-mile trip from Moscow to Beijing (which includes a 4-hour stop to change the track gauge of the carriages themselves );
- Slightly longer is the 144-hour trip from Moscow to Vladivostok, which runs for 5,772 miles.
- However, the longest passenger train service of all runs from Pyongyang to Moscow. This consists of a sleeper car which first travels from Pyongyang to Vladivostok, then gets coupled to the aforementioned Moscow-to-Vladivostok train when it makes its return journey. This service runs for 6,380 miles - and lasts for 206 hours.
- Still, if we take into account freight trains as well... there are some even longer ones . The longest of all is the 7,500-mile service from Yiwu (in China) to London (through the Channel Tunnel) - and this takes 18 days, or 432 hours .
So, does anybody know of any more extreme or unusual journeys?
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