All aboard the world’s longest railway! — theguardian.com

Everyone loves a train journey, but the longest railway journey in the world might just be the most unromantic one, too. It would be snide to call it the Plastic Tat Track, but the new route connecting eastern China with Spain is hardly a civilisation-changing Silk Road. A freight train bringing 82 containers of Christmas decorations and plastic trinkets to Madrid from the city of Yiwu, famed for its booming “small commodities market”, has belatedly returned home at the weekend with an appetising cargo of jamón, olive oil and red wine for China’s chorizo-munching classes.

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