The world’s longest train journey spans 18,755 kilometres across 13 countries in 21 days, connecting Lisbon to Singapore ...

Editor’s note: Doug Anderson is a retired IBM programer and planner who has been riding the rails for years. He traveled on the Trans-Siberian Express Aug. 10-24, 2006. That was the reply to the ...

For centuries, citizens of the Eurasian continent have pondered an affordable and speedy way to traverse the great expanse of tundra separating Europeans from their Asian neighbors. And when the ...

Traveling by train can be quite wonderful, especially when one is traveling long distances. You travel through wide open lands, changing scenes, places you might never see otherwise. The slowness of ...

A 1973 train trip through Siberia to Moscow by rock legend David Bowie is now the subject of a museum exhibition. “David Bowie in the Soviet Union” at California’s Wende Museum features his friend ...

This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...