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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Trains from East to West now running…. will we see a Western revival of the West-to-East Orient Express? I doubt it but stranger things have happened
http://www.atimes.com/article/new-freight-train-service-china-iran-opens/
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Interestingly, there is a remake of this classic movie (of the Agatha Christie novel) coming out this year. Hollywood telling us something?
And here is the older, David Suchet film: https://youtu.be/KcdbyFzZHHY
It´s my favourite. David Suchet is a perfect Poirot.
100 years later, China sees and raises the stakes of the Kaiser’s Berlin-Baghdad project
I wouldn’t mind taking a (slow) train to China 🙂
Me neither. I worked with a very interesting Singaporean woman many years ago who had travelled on the trans-Siberian express. Her experience as described by her was transformational.
The Economist chimes in:
https://www.economist.com/news/business/21728981-new-silk-railroad-will-challenge-airlines-and-shipping-firms-new-rail-routes-between-china?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/