Category: Trains

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Motat

Motat is a fascinating museum of transport and technology located in Western Springs a suburb of Auckland. It has an amazing collection of historic vehicles of all types and plenty of heritage and history...

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Disney’s Monorail

The much loved Disneyland Monorail has been a part of the themepark since its opening in 1959. Over the years it has had several facelifts and model changes but it is still one of...

San Francisco’s Street Car Trams 0

San Francisco’s Street Car Trams

When you think of trams in the beautiful US Pacific city of San Francisco you think of the old cable cars that head up and down the steep streets. Well there is another very...

Monorail Monorail.. Monorail 0

Monorail Monorail.. Monorail

Gliding smoothly on a track high above the city streets in the tropical city of Kuala Lumpur is the KL Monorail. The monorail links the Golden Triangle sector of the city with the Sentral...

Travel pods for Heathrow 0

Travel pods for Heathrow

[youtube epiiPy9kAho] Heathrow airport is one of the world’s busiest and with its five different terminals it can be a nightmare to navigate with sometimes huge distances to travel between flights and to the...

Rapid Beijing-Tianjin for the Olympics 0

Rapid Beijing-Tianjin for the Olympics

All ready for the this weeks Olympic celebrations, the Beijing – Tianjin high speed railway has just opened in China. The train will take passengers from Beijing to the soccer facilities at Tianjin. The...

The Shinkansen- the easiest way to travel 0

The Shinkansen- the easiest way to travel

Well we got the taste for Japanese stories with yesterday’s post so we thought we would do another. Today we feature the Shinkansen or Japan’s bullet train. This state of the art service is...

Getting pushy on Tokyo’s trains 0

Getting pushy on Tokyo’s trains

[youtube axwMxUBL_ws] Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world and being so big it has a pretty decent transport system. At times like the morning and afternoon rush hours the trains...

LA to Vegas in 2 hours by train 1

LA to Vegas in 2 hours by train

[youtube y-54gBLwK3s] Now if it is 3 top things we like about traveling it would be fast trains, Disneyland and Las Vegas. Unfortunately you can’t combine all three in the one trip, but that...