The founder of the online guide seat61.com, Mark Smith has turned his singular passion for train travel into a worldwide ...

Train Journeys is a BBC Travel series that celebrates the world's most interesting train rides and inspires readers to travel ...

and compares it to a newspaper article from the early 1870s reporting on the trip by rail. Both means of travel were much faster than the old overland stagecoach route. Traveling in his fast coach ...