Train journeys around the world

[Peter]

Can anyone recommend train journeys they have taken?

 

I have been on the Glacier Express, Bernina Express, ICE around Switzerland, taken the train up the Jungfraujoch, reunification express from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, TranzAlpine in New Zealand.

 

I'd love to take the Californian Zephyr across the US.

[Mayner]

We rode the California Zephyr from Denver to San Fransisco the crossing of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada are both in daytime.

[Jimbo325ci]

I did the Transiberian Railway in 2004. Started in Moscow, stopped in Irkutsk, Siberia, then Mongolia and finally Beijing, China. Unbelievable experience.

[WRENNEIRE]

Try the DART on a Saturday night at about 11ish

Doesn't really matter what direction you travel, results will be similar

Don't forget to tuck your trousers into your boots.......

[dave182]

Visited Sri Lanka a few years ago, and it has a wonderful British built system that runs from the coast up into the mountains! It's broad gauge, and outside of the main centres still mostly semaphore signalling. Stock is slowly being upgraded to Indian built multiple units, but when I was there 3 years ago there were plenty of diesels, including hunslet shunters, and mixed freights, along with some curious pwd consists. I know I've photos somewhere, maybe on an older laptop, I'll do my best to find them!

[Garfield]

Visited Sri Lanka a few years ago, and it has a wonderful British built system that runs from the coast up into the mountains! It's broad gauge, and outside of the main centres still mostly semaphore signalling. Stock is slowly being upgraded to Indian built multiple units, but when I was there 3 years ago there were plenty of diesels, including hunslet shunters, and mixed freights, along with some curious pwd consists. I know I've photos somewhere, maybe on an older laptop, I'll do my best to find them!

 

Two of NIR's old DH class shunters are in service there at a cement plant owned by Holcim, having being rebuilt and re-gauged.

[Horsetan]

Anywhere on the Swiss rail network, if only to experience services that just... work.

[dave182]

Two of NIR's old DH class shunters are in service there at a cement plant owned by Holcim, having being rebuilt and re-gauged.

 

Now that's something I never knew! Thanks for sharing that info. Had crossed my mind to do a small layout with a Sri Lankan theme!

[Garfield]

Now that's something I never knew! Thanks for sharing that info. Had crossed my mind to do a small layout with a Sri Lankan theme!

 

No problem! There's more information on the Irish Traction Group's website, including a photo of DH3 after its rebuild at Beaver Power in Wales: http://www.irishtractiongroup.com/page25.html