The world’s longest train journey is epic — but nobody's ever taken it
bigthink.com
Can you travel by rail from Portugal all the way to Singapore? In theory, yes. In practice? Not so much.

This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Was looking at the Malaysian East Coast Line (AKA the Malaysian Jungle Railway) , yesterday, which forms part of this route. Fix: The West Coast Line is the one that goes to Thailand.

    About $10 for a sleeper, and 15hrs of jungle and village scenery. Beautiful.

    Can’t pass the Thailand/Malaysia border on the train though. Need to switch to car or bus.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Yes you can! But not via east coast(Kelantan). You can get from KL Sentral(Kuala Lumpur) to Padang Besar(Perlis) to Hat Yai via KTMB’s Mysawasdee train service, then continue the journey up north via Thailand’s train.