churchill Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 'Traveling from Scotland to Singapore (or reverse) by train seems like a gap-year backpacker’s itinerary, or just another endless carefree rite of passage for any Australian. It is undoubtedly the Holy Grail of rail travel: a seamless connection across the furthest distance that could conceivably be traveled on a single rail track. But it also marks the ultimate compression of geography, smoothly traversing the world’s largest, most diverse and turbulent landmass. The distance from London to Shanghai is the same as London to San Francisco, and Eurasia boasts most of world’s population. It has always been—and will always be—the going concern of geopolitics. Today Eurasia is being densely knit together through an infrastructural exoskeleton of railways and pipelines: Iron Silk Roads.' see ... http://qz.com/6140/the-new-silk-road-is-made-of-iron-and-stretches-from-scotland-to-singapore/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchill Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 Looking forward to hopping on in Surat Thani .. and hopping off along the way ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 The high speed train outa BKK will even make the trip faster, the 1klm buffer zone will be hard to control though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaliYUGA Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 The link you posted does not go direct to the story, could you provide a specific link please? The site it goes to appears to be a 'click manufacturing' operation. Shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchill Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 The link you posted does not go direct to the story, could you provide a specific link please? The site it goes to appears to be a 'click manufacturing' operation. Shame Worked for me .. ? but try http://www.paragkhanna.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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