The Trans Siberian Railroad is the longest railway on our planet today. It is the core of a system including the Trans Manchurian and the Trans Mongolian Railways. Koen traveled the Trans Siberian & Trans Mongolian railways as part of a project that will discover the railways between London and Ho Chi Ming City.

Recent articles about the project:

The project phases

While I will travel the whole trajectory, I will do so in seperate steps:

1. From London to Vilnius and from Saint Petersburg via Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsks and Ulaanbaatar to Beijing, completed in the fall of 2016;
2. A small part to complete by train between Lithuania, via Minsk into Russia: depending on when I’m in NY to get me a visa for Belarus – or when the visa requirement changes on February 12, 2017;
3. Beijing – Seoul – Tokyo – Shanghai (Planned early 2017)
4. Shanghai – Hong Kong – Hanoi (2017)
5. Hanoi – Ho Chi Ming City (completed in 2017, keep an eye out for the articles about travel in Vietnam)

The Trans Siberian and Trans Mongolian project map with links to the articles:

This map shows the project, and links to the articles already published about it on Boarding Today:

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Airline kilometers

[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Trip[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]New Kilometers[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]Total Kilometers[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]New York, USA– Boston, USA[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]300[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]300[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Boston, USA – London, UK[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]5,255[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]5,555[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Vilnius, Lithuania – Moscow, Russia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]782[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]6,337[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Moscow, Russia – Saint-Petersburg, Russia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]650[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]6,987[/column]
[/row]

Trainline kilometers

[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Trip[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]New Kilometers[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]Total Kilometers[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Heathrow Express[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]23[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 23[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Eurostar London-Paris[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 480[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 503[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Thalys Paris-Brussels[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 320[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 823[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Brussels, Belgium–
Ghent –
Lichtervelde –
Roeselare[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 129[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 952[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Bruges –
Antwerp –
Brussels[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 194[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 1,146[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Thalys Brussels – Cologne[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 237[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 1,383[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]City Night Line Cologne – Berlin[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 572[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 1,955[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Berlin (D) – Warsaw (PL)[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 575[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 2,530[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Warsaw (PL) – Bialystok (PL)[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 198[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 1,728[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Bialystok (PL) – Kaunas (LIT)[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 245[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 1,973[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Kaunas (LIT) – Vilnius (LIT)[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 103[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 2,076[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Saint Petersburg, Russia – Moscow, Russia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 650[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 2,726[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Moscow, Russia – Yekaterinburg, Russia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 1,815[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 4,541[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Yekaterinburg, Russia – Irkutsk, Russia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 3,344[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 7,885[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Irkutsk, Russia – Ulanbataar, Mongolia[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 1,113[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 8,998[/column]
[/row]
[row]
[column size=”col-4″]Ulanbataar, Mongolia – Beijing, China[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]+ 1,357[/column]
[column size=”col-4″]= 10,355[/column]
[/row]

Featured mage in this post: Trans Siberian Railroad in Mongolia, by Boccaccio1 (Flickr) – used under common creative license.