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Times Tips on Train Trips

The end of the year seems to have come early in Britain with the UK's Times newspaper running a series of "best of the last 12 months" wrap-ups on all kinds of travel topics. The pick of the bunch was a round up of the top ten train trips around the world.

We love a bit of clickety-clackity train action, and heartily agree with most of their picks, especially the train to Tibet and the Ghan up the middle of Australia. A couple of the more unusual entries on the list include the 1,000km El Transcantábrico in northern Spain and the should-be-traveled-more route between Bangkok and Singapore.

In trying not to be predictable, however, the Times left off the grandest train journey of them all, the unmissable Trans-Siberian. If you're going to take a long train journey, the best place for it is really one where there's plenty of vodka to numb the pain of being trapped in a train cabin for hours or days on end.

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· Train Snobs Flaunt Self-Proclaimed Good Taste [Jaunted]

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