Deep fjords and high peaks: railway captures Norway's beauty in a nutshell
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The train ride is not the longest in the world, nor the fastest or the steepest, but the Flaam Railway line that climbs a mountain peak from a deep Norwegian fjord offers one of the most staggeringly beautiful views in the world.
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Switzerland opens the world's longest rail tunnel on land - the 34km Loetschberg tunnel under the Alps.
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Oscar-winning Czech director Jiri Menzel's film "I Served the King of England" takes the viewer on a journey through the gilded hotels, restaurants, brothels, rubble and remote forests of 20th century central Europe.
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WASHINGTON Â The Amtrak run from Manhattan to Washington is, for long stretches, surprisingly pastoral. Mostly whatÂs outside the window is low green land, flat water and high sky, not so different from the Nature that John Constable loved and painted in England two centuries ago. There are other sights too: industrial junk heaps, poisoned wetlands, used-up towns. These are things Constable didnÂt see but feared would come to be.
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Travel: Audio slideshow: A tourist guide to North Korea.
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Finn E Kydland, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last week, makes lots of references to his modest upbringing on Norway's west coast.
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Locales that are not always where you want to be but are always fascinating
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ÂConstableÂs Great LandscapesÂ at the National Gallery is a tremendous show, focusing on nine of the knottiest and most forceful landscapes produced in 19th-century Europe.
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Arts & entertainment: Hiroshige's prints of 19th-century Japan conjure up an impossibly tranquil world but don't be fooled
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After a half-century of decline, Britain's creaky rail system is  being connected with Europe's high-speed network. And a grand Victorian station will be the jewel in the crown of British Rail
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Arts & entertainment: Kipling called it 'a river of life'. Chris Arnot on a unique attempt to capture the spirit of the 1,500 mile-long Grand Trunk Road.
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GENEVA -- In a few years train passengers will vanish into a tunnel just south of Zurich and emerge 30 minutes later blinking in southern European sunshine. They will have missed the Alpine views but shortened their journey to Italy by half.
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By Kelley Chambers, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Dec. 14--When Marine Corps Col. Adele Hodges was stationed in Norway she was impressed with how far people there could travel by bicycle.   Wednesday the commanding officer at Camp Lejeune saw the same vision for Jacksonville.
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Excavations for the Channel Tunnel rail link show scientists a glimpse of climate change 55 million years ago.
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Travel: A new route from Madrid to Malaga marks the final link in a luxurious rail trip from London to the Costa del Sol. Robin McKie puts it to the test
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Travel: From virgin rainforest to Andean peaks, Peru has an incredible natural heritage
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OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold.