Freight from China in 16 days

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Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 16597Post zildjian
January 16th, 2017, 9:15 pm

Chinese train

'Due to arrive on Wednesday, the train will have passed through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France before crossing under the Channel and arriving in the east end of London at Barking rail freight terminal'

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Re: Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 16598Post zildjian
January 16th, 2017, 9:43 pm

Russia has a different gauge, the container freight would just need lifting from one to another carriage but not sure about the train itself so mostly publicity as not practical perhaps

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Re: Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 16613Post rubberrat
January 18th, 2017, 1:18 pm

Be nice to have a Motorail back the other way.Would be cool to explore East without the long overland drive out there
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Re: Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 16616Post zildjian
January 18th, 2017, 2:31 pm

featured on this mornings news in actual fact, I think its kind of ambitious considering the logistics of it travelling through Russia as well but proves at least the concept is there

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Re: Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 16654Post Alexd
January 22nd, 2017, 4:54 pm

hopefully loading up the wagons with all the cheap tools made from chocolate :o to return for refund

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Re: Freight from China in 16 days

Post: # 18575Post derestrictor
July 20th, 2017, 8:29 am

This was on news couple of days ago
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/belt- ... ad-n757756

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