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Norway's 496km engineering miracle

By Anthony Ham

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A return to old-school Canadian glamour

By Kaitlyn McInnis

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Japan's stunning locomotive anomaly

By Mike MacEacheran

How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US (Credit: ClassicStock/Alamy)

Rediscovering America

The railway that forever changed the US

By Ellen Lee

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Canada's little-known 1,160km train

By Monisha Rajesh

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Asia's most beautiful train route?

By Zinara Rathnayake

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The UK train that shouldn't exist

By Ben Lerwill

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Africa's stunning 80km safari train

By Stacey McKenna

Farmer examining his watercress crop for quality control before harvest. Alresford

The UK's love of 'poor man's bread'

By Yasemen Kaner-White

The journey from Nouadhibou to Zouerat takes up to 20 hours (Credit: mauritius images GmbH/Alamy)

Adventure & Experience

The longest train in the world?

By Alastair Gill

Children pet Tama, the original feline stationmaster of Japan's Kishi train station

Adventure & Experience

How this cat saved a train line

By Rob Goss

A woman rides the Circular Railway in Yangon, Myanmar

A Myanmar rail journey not to be missed

By Carlotta Dotto & Peter Yeung

Train station bento shops offer carefully packaged ekiben with choices tied to the area they’re in (Credit: Elisa Parhad)

Food & Hospitality

Japan’s ultimate travel food

By Elisa Parhad

Some hope to introduce more people to the history of the Hejaz Railway (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri)

Adventure & Experience

The rail that ‘belongs to all Muslims’

By Amanda Ruggeri

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Adventure & Experience

Africa’s crumbling train of fortune

By Thomas Lewton

Steam Train, China

Adventure & Experience

The last train of a bygone era

By Christopher Cherry

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