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the great train trail

The journey by train from Bristol to Lhasa, under one stretch of sea and across 9,000 miles of land - OR Carrying Pot-noodles to China!

Monday, 2 July 2007





Posted by Tom T at 01:47
Labels: Warsaw; changing wheels on train at old USSR border; Moscow Metro

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Fave Films about Russia

  • October - Eisenstein 1927
  • Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky 1991

Fave Films about Mongolia

  • Mongolian Ping Pong - Ning Hao 2004
  • Urga - Nikita Mikhalkov 1991
  • Khadak – Brosens & Woodworth 2006

Books

  • Bryn Thomas - Trans-Siberian Handbook
  • Michael Palin - Himalaya
  • Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet
  • Paul Theroux - Riding the Iron Rooster
  • Agnes Smedley - China Correspondent

Fave Train Movies

  • Closely Observed Trains - Jiri Menzel 1966
  • Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock 1951
  • The American Friend - Wim Wenders 1977
  • The Titfield Thunderbolt - Charles Crichton 1953

Links

  • Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge
  • Tom's interview
  • The world's highest railway
  • Naadam
  • Access Tibet Tours
  • Tianxiang Courtyard Hotel Beijing
  • Going to Mongolia for no apparent reason
  • Nikita's homestead
  • Olkhon Island
  • In the footsteps of Joseph Rock
  • seat 61

The journey starts in Bristol.

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2007 (78)
    • ▼  July (63)
      • Carol's diary, Journey home
      • Off home!
      • Kathmandu ladies
      • Kathmandu monkeys
      • Tom's random thoughts in Nepal - the final destina...
      • Sue and Martin in Nepal
      • Nepal bug
      • Border Bird
      • China Customs
      • Action Woman
      • Things are looking up!
      • The way to Base Camp
      • The clouds parted...
      • Speed Walking
      • Chinese Windows
      • The Fish About To Die and Be Eaten
      • Nice place to wee
      • Carol's diary Days 19 - 25, Beijing to Lhasa.
      • A sweetie!
      • Making shoes
      • Making eyes
      • Prayer wheels
      • Prostrated in Lhasa
      • Sue's Tibetan Treatment
      • Barley Nuns
      • Roofworkers' Knees-up
      • Buddha Martin
      • Hell's Kitchen
      • Monks and their habits
      • Tea in palace
      • Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
      • Main square, Lhasa, Tibet
      • Monkey on a stick (Temple of Heaven, Beijing)
      • Tienanmen Square, Beijing (no track laying vehicles)
      • We're back on line!
      • Tom's random observations on trains to China
      • Help, we're having trouble seeing our Blog!
      • Carol's diary Days 15 16 and 17
      • hanging out of window in Chinese tunnel
      • Irkutsk - Ulan Bator, 1113 Km
      • Mongolian gentleman in hat
      • Susan and Martin Spurling in Mongolia
      • Moving foal to allow mare milking
      • Przewalski horse stallion
      • Camels
      • Mongolian wrestlers leaping about
      • Naadam opening ceremony
      • Mongol bikers at Naadam opening
      • Tom driving Mongol T3 Train Loco
      • Lake Baikal evening
      • No title
      • Tom's diary Irkutsk - Lake Baikal by road & ferry ...
      • Carol's diary Day 5 to Day 10
      • Tom's diary Train Moscow-Irkutsk Days 7-11, 5152 Km
      • Day 7 - setting off for Siberia!
      • Red Square - still red?
      • Romantic moment by St Basil's
      • Lenin in modern times
      • Carol's diary, Day 5 Moscow
      • No title
      • Carol's diary, Day 5 (distance together with Day 4...
      • Carol's diary, Day 4 Warsaw - Moscow (via Minsk; t...
      • Carol's Diary, Day 3 Berlin - Warsaw 572 Km
    • ►  June (14)
    • ►  May (1)

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