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This is the world’s second longest railway freight route (the first being Yiwu to Madrid which is an extra 500 miles), and was opened in 2017. A container ship takes 30 – 45 days to make the same journey.
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Lads lads lads, cannot overstate how much seeing this made my day: the Yiwu to London train, IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD 
This bad boy* (*very good boy) has travelled SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED MILES over the last 18 days from China to get here.pic.twitter.com/5IadFhVzZs
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It’s truly remarkable to imagine what this train has seen, as it passes through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, and finally the UK. Hopefully one landmark on its journey this time was my gleeful face
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This is awesome. I also like the bonus Cute 10 Foot Side Ridge.
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He gets all over!
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I had no idea this existed! I'm now going down a wikipedia rabbit hole. How cool!
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I had no idea the channel tunnel opened for other operators.
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Yes! Freight, Eurostar trains and the car trains I think... quite the scheduling juggling act given there’s only one line each way!
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So, it’s basically the Silk (rail) Road. Awesome! How did this ever slip by my radar?
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When I saw this tweet I thought you were actually linking me to this and I'm slightly disappointed, ngl
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