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I made this journey in September 2018 and strongly recommend it. It’s one of Canada’s undiscovered special train journeys, and costs a fraction of the Rocky Mountaineer train. It’s an old fashioned scheduled service and is priced accordingly. I travelled from Jasper to Prince Rupert. It takes 2...

The Battambang Bamboo Railway has been a tourist attraction in Cambodia for some years now. There was a dormant standard gauge line from Phnomh Penh to the Thai border, disused since the 1980s or thereabouts. Locals in the Battambang area had built simple bamboo wagons to propel along the...

I am considering travelling with VIA Rail from Prince Rupert in British Columbia to Jasper (via Prince George). Has anyone made this journey? If so, any comments and suggestions? Is it worth doing? What classes of travel are there, and any views on whether an upgrade is beneficial? Any...

http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/news-drd-090914-kennedy-welcomes-increase Good to see there are plans for improving the service. I never understood why the Dargan Bridge was built with only single track. It seemed obvious it would always be a bottle neck.