World & UK Railway News... 5th August 2012

Railway Herald- Rail Tours for Week Starting 6th August 2012

The following named tours are scheduled for this week....
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As always, check with operators to confirm runnings...

The Dorset Coast Express
The Mersey Moorlander
The Northern Belle (VSOE (Northern Belle))
The Jacobite
The Scarborough Spa Express
The Fellsman
The Cathedrals Express
The Scarborough Flyer
The British Pullman (VSOE)
The West Highlander
The Cumbrian Mountain Express
The Lakeland Statesman
Peak Forest & Buxton
The Waverley
The North Wales Coast Express
The Royal Duchy
The Shakespeare Express

Some action from this last week.............



Thank you to all contributors....


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(Reproduced in part by Kind Permission  F.William Engdahl)

China’s Land Bridge to Turkey creates new Eurasian Geopolitical Potentials

By F. William Engdahl, 28 April 2012

The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of little publicized rail links connecting China, Russia, Kazakhstan and parts of Western Europe. It is becoming clear to more people in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Eurasia including China and Russia that their natural tendency to build these markets faces only one major obstacle: NATO and the US Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance obsession. Rail infrastructure is a major key to building vast new economic markets across Eurasia.

China and Turkey are in discussions to build a new high-speed railway link across Turkey. If completed it would be the country's largest railway project ever, even including the pre-World War I Berlin-Baghdad Railway link. The project was perhaps the most important agenda item, far more so than

Syria during talks in Beijing between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Chinese leadership in early April. The proposed rail link would run from Kars on the easternmost border with Armenia, through the Turkish interior on to Istanbul where it would connect to the Marmaray rail tunnel now under construction that runs under the Bosphorus strait. Then it would continue to Edirne near the border to Greece and Bulgaria in the European Union. It will cost an estimated $35 billion. The realization of the Turkish link would complete a Chinese Trans-Eurasian Rail Bridge project that would bring freight from China to Spain and England.

 

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