International Rail Transport - Eurasian Land Bridge, Variable Gauge, Compagnie Internationale Des Wagons-Lits, Trans-Asian Railway (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Eurasian Land Bridge, Variable gauge, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, Trans-Asian Railway, UIC classification of goods wagons, Rail Europe, Northern East West Freight Corridor, UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, Organization for Cooperation of Railways, UIC Class U special wagon, UIC identification marking for tractive stock, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, SUW 2000, UIC wagon numbers, Third railway package, New Eurasian Land Bridge, Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail, Arab Mashreq International Railway, List of UIC country codes, Second Railway Package, North-South Transport Corridor, International Coach Regulations, UIRR, International Wagon Regulations, Cosmopolitan Railway. Excerpt: The Eurasian Land Bridge, sometimes called the New Silk Road, is a term used to describe the rail transport route for moving freight and/or passengers overland from Pacific seaports in Siberia and China to seaports in Europe. The route, a transcontinental railroad and rail land bridge, currently comprises the Trans-Siberian Railway, which runs through Russia and is sometimes called the Northern East-West Corridor and the New Eurasian Land Bridge or Second Eurasian Continental Bridge, running through China and Kazakhstan. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes. Completed in 1916, the Trans-Siberian connects Moscow with Russian Pacific seaports such as Vladivostok. From the 1960s until the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land bridge between Asia and Europe, until several issues caused the use of the railway for transcontinental freight to dwindle. One issue is the railways of the former Soviet Union (USSR) use a wider rail gauge than most ...