The colossal Asian country is best travelled on rails. Marco Ferrarese, who has spent many hours on them, gives you the ...

Both trains depart Hong Kong West Kowloon Station in the evening and arrive in Beijing at 6.53 a.m. and Shanghai at 6.45 a.m., making the journeys around 12.5 hours and 11 hours respectively ...

The first high-speed sleeper trains, whether northbound or southbound, all departed on Saturday evening, arriving at their destinations on Sunday morning. The services will operate from Friday to ...

My first visit to China was in 1986 and in 1987, ... I was advised that flying was "not possible" but there was a first class (soft sleeper) direct train between the two places.