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Luxury train

Index Luxury train

Luxury trains are designed to offer a very comfortable ride and evoke an association with history and heritage. [1]

101 relations: Adelaide, Agatha Christie, Alberta, Alice Springs railway station, Andalusia, Aso, Kumamoto, Australia, Úbeda, B unit, Baeza, Bangkok, Belmond (company), Belmond Grand Hibernian, Bilbao, Blue Train (South Africa), Brighton Belle, Bristol, British Columbia, British Rail Mark 3, British Railways Mark 1, British Railways Mark 2, Buffet car, Calais, Calgary, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Rockies, Cape Town, Cádiz, Córdoba, Spain, Columbia River, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, Crowsnest Pass, Darwin, Northern Territory, Deccan Odyssey, Dining car, Eastern and Oriental Express, Edinburgh, EMD GP38-2, Excursion train, French Riviera, Gare de l'Est, George Pullman, Georges Nagelmackers, Glasgow, Golden Chariot, Granada, Hakata Station, Hayato, Kagoshima, Heritage railway, Hotel, ..., Indian Pacific, Ireland, Jerez de la Frontera, Kagoshima, Khajuraho Group of Monuments, Kuala Lumpur, Kyushu, Linares, Jaén, Liverpool, London, London Victoria station, Maharajas' Express, Manchester, Miyakonojō, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Murder on the Orient Express, Nagasaki, Northern England, Orient Express, Palace on Wheels, Perth, Prefectures of Japan, Pretoria, Pullman (car or coach), Pullman Company, Pullman train (UK), Renfe Operadora, Rocky Mountaineer, Rocky Mountains, Ronda, Rovos Rail, Royal Canadian Pacific, Royal Rajasthan on Wheels, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Scotland, Seven Stars in Kyushu, Seville, Singapore, Sleeping car, Sydney, The Ghan, The Royal Scotsman, Trans-Siberian Railway, Transcantábrico, Varanasi, Venice, Venice-Simplon Orient Express, Via Rail, Vientiane, Yufuin, Ōita. Expand index (51 more) »

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Alice Springs railway station

Alice Springs railway station is located on the Adelaide–Darwin railway in Alice Springs.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Aso, Kumamoto

is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Úbeda

Úbeda (from Arabic Ubbada al-`Arab and this from Iberian Ibiut) is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with some 36,025 inhabitants.

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B unit

A B unit, in railroad terminology, is a locomotive unit (generally a diesel locomotive) which does not have a driving cab or crew compartment, and must therefore be controlled from another, coupled locomotive with a driving cab (an A unit).

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Baeza

Baeza, formerly also written as Baéza, is an Andalusian town in the province of Jaén in southern Spain.

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Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Thailand.

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Belmond (company)

Belmond Ltd. is a hotel and leisure company that operates luxury hotels, train services and river cruises around the world.

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Belmond Grand Hibernian

Belmond Grand Hibernian is the name of a luxury train service in Ireland.

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Bilbao

Bilbao (Bilbo) is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.

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Blue Train (South Africa)

The Blue Train travels an approximately journey in South Africa between Pretoria and Cape Town.

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Brighton Belle

The Brighton Belle was a named train which was operated by the Southern Railway and subsequently by British Rail from Victoria Station in London to Brighton, on the Sussex coast.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Rail Mark 3

The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1960s.

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British Railways Mark 1

British Railways Mark 1 was the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways.

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British Railways Mark 2

The Mark 2 family of railway carriages were British Rail's second design of carriages.

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Buffet car

A buffet car is a passenger car of a train, where food and beverages can be bought at a counter and consumed.

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Calais

Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881.

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Canadian Rockies

The Canadian Rockies (Rocheuses canadiennes) comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Cádiz

Cádiz (see other pronunciations below) is a city and port in southwestern Spain.

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Córdoba, Spain

Córdoba, also called Cordoba or Cordova in English, is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits

Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (English: International Sleeping-Car Company), also CIWL, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, or just Wagons-Lits, is an international hotel and travel logistics company, particularly known for its on-train catering and sleeping car services, as well as being the historical operator of the Orient Express.

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Crowsnest Pass

Crowsnest Pass (sometimes referred to as Crow's Nest Pass, passe du Nid-de-Corbeau) is a low mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Deccan Odyssey

The Deccan Odyssey is a special luxury train based on the model of Palace on Wheels to boost tourism on the Maharashtra route of the Indian Railways.

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Dining car

A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (British English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant.

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Eastern and Oriental Express

The Eastern & Oriental Express is a luxury train that carries passengers between Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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EMD GP38-2

The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division.

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Excursion train

An excursion train is a chartered train run for a special event or purpose.

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French Riviera

The French Riviera (known in French as the Côte d'Azur,; Còsta d'Azur; literal translation "Coast of Azure") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

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Gare de l'Est

The Gare de l'Est ("Station of the East" in English), officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large SNCF termini in Paris.

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George Pullman

George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist.

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Georges Nagelmackers

Georges Lambert Casimir Nagelmackers (born 24 June 1845 in Liège, Belgium; deceased 10 August 1905 in Villepreux, France) was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Golden Chariot

The Golden Chariot is a luxury tourist train that connects the important tourist spots in the Indian states of Karnataka, Goa, Kerala & Tamil Nadu as well as Pondicherry, depending on the selected itinerary.

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Granada

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Hakata Station

is a major railway station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Hayato, Kagoshima

was a town located in Aira District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Hotel

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.

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Indian Pacific

The Indian Pacific is an Australian passenger rail service that operates between Sydney, on the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the Indian Ocean.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Jerez de la Frontera

Jerez de la Frontera, or simply Jerez, is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains.

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Kagoshima

is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the south western tip of the island of Kyushu in Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin.

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Khajuraho Group of Monuments

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India, about southeast of Jhansi.

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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur), or commonly known as KL, is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city in the country.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Linares, Jaén

Linares is a city located in the Andalusian province of Jaén, Spain.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Victoria station

Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.

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Maharajas' Express

The Maharajas' Express is a luxury tourist train owned and operated by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Miyakonojō

is a city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Miyazaki, Miyazaki

is the capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Orient Express

The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).

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Palace on Wheels

The Palace on Wheels is a luxury tourist train.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47, forming the first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Pretoria

Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.

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Pullman (car or coach)

In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars which were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.

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Pullman Company

The Pullman Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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Pullman train (UK)

Pullman trains in Great Britain were mainline luxury railway services that operated with first-class coaches and a steward service, provided by the British Pullman Car Company.

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Renfe Operadora

Renfe Operadora is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the, the and the networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company Adif (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias—Railway Infrastructure Administration).

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Rocky Mountaineer

Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian rail-tour company offering Western Canadian vacation packages that operates trains on four rail routes through British Columbia, Alberta, and the U.S. state of Washington.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Ronda

Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Málaga.

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Rovos Rail

Rovos Rail is a private railway company operating out of Capital Park Station in Pretoria, South Africa.

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Royal Canadian Pacific

The Royal Canadian Pacific is a luxury excursion passenger train operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), inaugurated on June 7, 2000, after the CPR received the royal designation for the service from Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

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Royal Rajasthan on Wheels

The Royal Rajasthan on Wheels is a luxury tourist train run by Indian Railways.

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San Sebastián

San Sebastián or Donostia is a coastal city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.

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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Seven Stars in Kyushu

The is a deluxe sleeping car excursion train operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Japan since October 2013.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Sleeping car

The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Ghan

The Ghan is an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway.

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The Royal Scotsman

The Belmond Royal Scotsman is a Scottish overnight luxury train, started in 1985 by GS&WR (Great Scottish and Western Railway Co.), and run since 2005 by Belmond Ltd. It makes trips particularly through the Scottish Highlands, but also occasional rides through the whole of Great Britain.

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Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR, p) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East.

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Transcantábrico

The Transcantábrico crosses northern Spain, along the Bay of Biscay.

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Varanasi

Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Venice-Simplon Orient Express

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, or VSOE, is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities.

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Via Rail

Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as VIA Rail Canada) is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by Transport Canada, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada.

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Vientiane

Vientiane (ວຽງຈັນ/ວຽງຈັນທນ໌/ວຽງຈັນທະບູຣີ ສຼີສັຕນາຄຄນາຫຸຕ ວິສຸທທິຣັຕນຣາຊທານີ ບໍຣີຣົມຍ໌, Viang chan) is the capital and largest city of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River near the border with Thailand.

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Yufuin, Ōita

was a town located in Ōita District, Ōita Prefecture, Japan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_train

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