"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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00:41:18 on Mon, 15 Jun 2009, peter remarked:
Apparently it would take 67 hours and 3 minutes to travel from Moscow to
Lisbon)

No wonder people take the plane!!

But joking apart, I did consider going to Lisbon by train, thinking it
wasn't that much further than the south of France, but it's almost 24hrs
from Paris, change Irun (where's that??)

It's where standard gauge runs out and you have to change onto a Spanish
gauge train (or if on a through train where the wheel gauge is changed)

tim

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Roland Perry wrote:

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00:41:18 on Mon, 15 Jun 2009, peter remarked:
Apparently it would take 67 hours and 3 minutes to travel from Moscow
to Lisbon)

No wonder people take the plane!!

But joking apart, I did consider going to Lisbon by train, thinking it
wasn't that much further than the south of France, but it's almost 24hrs
from Paris, change Irun (where's that??)

Franco-Spanish border near Biarritz. Gauge changing a speciality.

--
Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message
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at 00:41:18 on Mon, 15 Jun 2009, peter
remarked:
Apparently it would take 67 hours and 3 minutes to travel from Moscow
to Lisbon)

No wonder people take the plane!!

But joking apart, I did consider going to Lisbon by train,
thinking it wasn't that much further than the south of France,
but it's almost 24hrs from Paris, change Irun (where's that??)

It's where standard gauge runs out and you have to change onto a
Spanish gauge train (or if on a through train where the wheel gauge
is changed)

Iberian gauge. The Portuguese standard gauge is the same as the Spanish.

--
Colin Rosenstiel