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Train times, fares & information for train travel from Moscow - Almaty (Kazakhstan) - Urumqi - Beijing (China), also Moscow to Bishkek, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bokhara, Urgench & Khiva by train The Man in Seat 61
Train times, fares & how to buy tickets for train travel in China, including trains from Beijing to Xian, Beijing to Hong Kong and Beijing to Guangzhou, also the train from Beijing to Lhasa in Tibet. Shows what are the trains like and how to buy Chinese train tickets at the station or online. Information on ferries from Shanghai to Japan.
Better known as The Man In Seat 61 (it’s the best seat on the Eurostar, apparently), Smith is devoted to making train travel simple. His website, seat61.com, is a comprehensive catalogue of train journeys across Europe and beyond.
A beginner's guide to planning & booking a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway, from London via Moscow to Ulan Bator in Mongolia, Beijing in China & Japan via Shanghai or Vladivostok. Trans-Siberian train times, fares & travel tips, the best ways to buy Trans-Siberian train tickets, ferry & train connections, route map & recommended guidebooks.
15 wrz 2020 · On this episode we’ll chat with train travel expert, Mark Smith, also known as The Man in Seat 61, who maintains the world’s top website for train travel information. Traveling by train in Myanmar; photo courtesy Mark Smith. Scott & Trevor talk about train trips they have done.
21 sie 2022 · The Man in Seat 61, Mark Smith. SR: What inspired you to create Seat 61 and a website detailing how to travel anywhere in the world by train? MS: I had nothing to read on the commuter train home from work, so went into WH Smiths at Marylebone station and found a teach yourself book about html, the language basic webpages are written in.
In the UK we’re used to just hopping on to Google Maps, asking for directions from A to B, then getting the train that it tells us to get. When you’re in a place where you can’t do this anymore (China blocks Google Maps), you can feel pretty lost. Seat 61 can be a real lifesaver. It’s awesome.
