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Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys
Written by Tom Chesshyre
Narrated by David Thorpe
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Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world through train travel - on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains, meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for train travel. Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, on journeys on celebrated trains and railways including India's famed toy train, Sri Lanka's Reunification Express, the Indian Pacific across the Australian outback, and the picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands. Plus trains through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia, America, France and China, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy, Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!
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Tom Chesshyre
Tom Chesshyre is a travel journalist based in London and the author of How Low Can You Go? Round Europe for 1p Each Way (Plus Tax), which sold over 10,000 copies (Hodder, 2007). Currently staff travel writer for The Times, he has previously worked for Cambridge Evening News, Sporting Life, Sky Sports and The Daily Telegraph and writes frequently for the Mail on Sunday.
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