Can anyone recommend a good rail route (preferably starting in the uk or somewhere cheap uk flights land)
somthing really memorable, over a few days possibly with breaks etc - where the scenery and stops on the way are really special, i love rail travel (and hate flying!) and have done the usual over nights (paris-budapest) etc but want something a bit different - maybe morroco or iceland - any ideas?

the trans-mongolian was amazing

started in moscow & finished in beijing

you can start your journey in london & travel by rail to russia too

I've not done it myself, but the St Petersburg -> Vladivostock train journey is supposed to be THE ultimate train ride (think in total it's about 12 days).

That might be outside the scope of your trip, but worth a look nonetheless. http://www.trans-siberia.com/ is a reasonable site.

Richard

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I won't recommend a specific rail journey, I have so many favourites, but I will recommend a magazine about off the beaten track European travel which has run quite a few really good arcicles about train journeys across Europe. Hidden Europe - its got a decent search function and the magazine is really well written, so worth a shot if you're looking for something a little less ordinary.....

in reply to the travel monkey...

i want to do tha tin winter :D

it'd b amazing to see that much snow & nothingness for days :)

it's 7 1/2 days from moscow to vladivostok & thats where the trans-siberian starts from :)