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The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it
Can you travel by rail from Portugal all the way to Singapore? In theory, yes. In practice? Not so much.
By car, it can easily take 15 hours to drive the 373 miles (600 km) of winding roads that separate the capital Vientiane from the town of Boten on the Chinese border. Since December 2021, there’s a far straighter, much faster alternative: the brand-new high-speed Laos-China Railway(LCR) measures just 257 miles (414 km) between Boten and Vientiane, and fast trains cover that distance in three and a half hours. The trip from Bangkok to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur is about 932 miles (1,500 km), currently requires a transfer at Padang Besar on the Thai-Malaysian border, and takes up to 24 hours, at an average speed of 40 mph (65km/h).
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