The rail route from East London to China opened in 2017 and covered nearly 7,500 miles across eight countries in Europe and Asia.
Barking Station in East London has trains direct to China – but they only run freight services You’d have to become a pair of socks if you wanted to catch a train all the way from Barking to China , via the revived ancient Silk Road trading routes. The 7,500-mile journey is possible from the unassuming concrete and glass station that would otherwise take you by Tube to Epping.
The Silk Road connected much of the ancient world from the China’s Han dynasty to the Roman Empire as early as 114 AD. Caravan routes followed the path of the Great Wall of China, bypassed the Taklamakan Desert and flowed through the kingdoms and empires of the Middle East to the Mediterranean Sea where goods were loaded onto ships destined for Europe. It’s responsible for words like ‘chai’ entering popular use in many languages like Finnish, Czech and Ukrainian.
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