LONDON TO CAIRO
NEW TRAIN SERVICE SHORTLY LONDON, Nov. 17. ! Regular train services between London and Cairo —a distance of 3000 miles—are to be inaugurated almost immediately by the International Sleeping Car Co. (Wagons-Lits), and will be in full operation next; month. With, the exception . of a ferry crossing between Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia, and a six-hours' motor-car journey in Syria, the whole journey from Calais to Cairo will be made in luxurious sleeping coaches. At first.the journey will lake about six days each way, but it is felt certain that it will be ultimately reduced to less than five days. The route passes through beautiful and romantic'scencry of great variety and crosses 11 countries: England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, French Syria, Palestine, and Egypt* |
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 10
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135LONDON TO CAIRO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 10
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