London to China train

I read about this on Twitter and googled there is actually a line you can go. So how long does it take and what’s the quickest route? Where in China does can you reach?

Was asking about it as a passenger journey.

Do you mean an actual direct train from London to China? There is a thread about that here https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/china-freight-train-in-first-trip-to-barking.139804/

I can't imagine there is a London to China passenger train; do you mean "London to China by train"? If so, there is more than one "line" that you could go on.

If you are interested in the train journey as a passenger, a good starting point is looking here:
https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm
and
https://www.seat61.com/SilkRoute.htm

WideRanger said:

If you are interested in the train journey as a passenger, a good starting point is looking here:
https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm
and
https://www.seat61.com/SilkRoute.htm

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Wow 6 nights to Russia thanks for that. Seems a long journey perhaps flying is more efficient.

Twenty years ago I travelled from St Petersburg to Guangzhou (Canton) by train. Via Mongolia it was 7 nights in sleepers in total. It was certainly an experience, but it's a long way! Fortunately I had the luxury of being able to take long breaks of journey at suitable places of interest.

If you can break the journey and take plenty of time then it's worth doing, but it's not really an alternative to flying, though there were several Australians making the journey from the UK and Europe to get home for Christmas. Apparently the Christmas flights to Oz were so expensive then that it worked out cheaper to get as far as possible by train.

I came up with a few different ways you could get to Japan by train. To get somewhere major in China your looking at around 7-8 days I think.

Here is an example I came up with. (Yes my Moscow stations spelling is awful)

Thu 17/01/19

dep 11:48:00 Burton on Trent
arr 12:01:00 Derby
dep 12:33:00 Derby
arr 14:12:00 London STP
dep 15:04:00 London STP
arr 18:05:00 Brussels Midi
dep 19:25:00 Brussels Midi
arr 22:42:00 Dortmund

Fri 18/01/19
dep 00:32:00 Dortmund
arr 05:30:00 Berlin HBF
Dep 07:21:00 Berlin

Sat 19/01/19
arr 11:45:00 Moscow Bellarusky
Dep 23:45:00 Moscow Yaroslavsky

Fri 25/01/19
Arr 12:29:00 Harbin

Shrewbly said:

If you can break the journey and take plenty of time then it's worth doing, but it's not really an alternative to flying

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I second that. I did Brussels to Beijing in summer 2011 with my wife and two friends. It took us 4 weeks in total, with stops in Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Baikal lake, Ulan Bator, and Beijing. Seen like that, it's worth it, but I would not consider doing Moscow Beijing non stop. The longest non stop trip I did was Moscow Tashkent, 66 hours.