China launches direct rail freight service to London.

jCandlish · Jan 3, 2017

'China freight train' in first trip to Barking

China Railway already runs services between China and other European cities, including Madrid and Hamburg.

London will become the 15th European city to join what the Chinese government calls the New Silk Route.

OK Europe, lets send those trains back full!

Monarchist · Jan 3, 2017

jCandlish said:
OK Europe, lets send those trains back full!

Let us know what a one-way ticket is going to cost and we'll start making up our wish lists.

michiganbuck · Jan 3, 2017

Because of the different railway gauges involved, the containers need to be reloaded at various points.

Surprised they don't invent a way to change the gauge as needed. Perhaps go off on a gauging track to widen or narrow the gauge. Ops

Monarchist · Jan 3, 2017

michiganbuck said:
Because of the different railway gauges involved, the containers need to be reloaded at various points.

Surprised they don't invent a way to change the gauge as needed. Perhaps go off on a gauging track to widen or narrow the gauge. Ops

Containerization - and easy handling - having grown and prospered, track gauge is no longer as critical.

Scottl · Jan 3, 2017

I've heard it referred to as the New Silk Road and some economists are predicting a major shakeup in the world economy as a result. It's very clear that while the Chinese may appear to be taking a short-term view in some areas they are clearly planning for the future.

jCandlish · Jan 3, 2017

michiganbuck said:
Because of the different railway gauges involved, the containers need to be reloaded at various points.

Changing wheelsets at the Sino-Mongolian border.

Eurasian Land Bridge - Wikipedia

This is a huge infrastructure project, just now getting underway.

I very much want to make this trip in a passenger coach, while it is still nostalgic.

Monarchist · Jan 3, 2017

Scottl said:
I've heard it referred to as the New Silk Road and some economists are predicting a major shakeup in the world economy as a result. It's very clear that while the Chinese may appear to be taking a short-term view in some areas they are clearly planning for the future.

Ukraine and other 'Southern border' countries have signed-on to it so as to bypass the Russian Federation's paws and claws. China is of course, making itself helpful to those countries at around the same time.

Ergo it has already started to make a change that tilts the balance of dependency as well as raw economics.

Bill

DDoug · Jan 3, 2017

Monarchist said:
Containerization - and easy handling - having grown and prospered, track gauge is no longer as critical.

Bedside reader for this month is "the box"...very good write up on the cargo container, and all it's changes it has driven through out the world.
Books | Marc Levinson

I wonder if they will make a conex box where you park your car inside, have
a nice motel room at one end, some nice windows too ?

I suspect it would make train travel more popular.

tdmidget · Jan 3, 2017

jCandlish said:
Changing wheelsets at the Sino-Mongolian border.

Eurasian Land Bridge - Wikipedia

This is a huge infrastructure project, just now getting underway.

I very much want to make this trip in a passenger coach, while it is still nostalgic.

Nope. First that is a passenger car. Passenger equipment might have the trucks changed to avoid inconveniencing the passengers plus the equipment is usually dedicated to that run. Source I found, (not Wikipedia) says that they have changed containers to another train in as little as 47 minutes. Changing trucks won't work because there are 3 coupling systems involved as well as differing brake systems.

jCandlish · Jan 3, 2017

tdmidget said:
First that is a passenger car.

jCandlish said:

I very much want to make this trip in a passenger coach, while it is still nostalgic.

Click to expand...

Yeah. I know. I intend to go and see for myself.

Sea Farmer · Jan 3, 2017

digger doug said:
I wonder if they will make a conex box where you park your car inside, have
a nice motel room at one end, some nice windows too ?

Isn't that a Winnebago?

Miguels244 · Jan 3, 2017

This is why it's more important to have an isolationist trade policy.

DDoug · Jan 3, 2017

Sea Farmer said:
Isn't that a Winnebago?

With a "Toy Hauler" like garage, and put steel wheels under it...and I'm all over it...

jCandlish · Jan 4, 2017

digger doug said:
I wonder if they will make a conex box where you park your car inside, have a nice motel room at one end, some nice windows too ?

Trans-European intermodal now has CargoBeamer,

and RoRo with drivers accommodation in separate carriages:

Truck drivers hit the rails and take a break.

digger doug said:
I suspect it would make train travel more popular.

We take the RoRo (RhB Vereina Tunnel) with our car all the time, especially in the Winter since the passes aren't maintained after rail tunnels are completed.

I drive a big sedan with double glass in all the windows. It is still very loud in a semi-open wagon in a rail tunnel. You don't appreciate just how quiet a passenger coach is until you've been through a tunnel in your car.

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