Legendary Trains Codexery

A source-cited reference to legendary trains

Legendary Trains (19)

• The Orient Express — The legendary luxury train that connected Paris to Istanbul.
• The Flying Scotsman — A legendary steam locomotive.
• The Shinkansen — Japan's legendary bullet trains, as listed in the reference compendium.
• The TGV — French high-speed rail pioneer.
• The Trans-Siberian Railway — The longest railway line in the world, connecting Moscow to Vladivostok across eight time zones.
• Mallard — World's fastest steam locomotive, record still unbroken.
• Stephenson's Rocket — The pioneering steam locomotive that won the Rainhill Trials and set the template for future steam engines.
• Union Pacific Big Boy — The largest and most powerful operational steam locomotive in the world.
• The Eurostar — High-speed rail service linking the UK and continental Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
• Maglev trains — Magnetically levitated trains achieving high speeds without wheels.
• The Acela
• The Glacier Express — The slowest express train in the world.
• The Ghan — Luxury train linking Australia's north and south coasts.
• The Blue Train — South Africa's luxury express between Pretoria and Cape Town, billed as a five-star hotel on rails.
• The ICE — German high-speed rail system operated by Deutsche Bahn.
• The California Zephyr — Amtrak's longest daily route, traversing the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada.
• The Bernina Express — Scenic Swiss-Italian railway crossing the Bernina Pass.
• The Settle-Carlisle line — A 73-mile main line built in the 1870s across northern England.
• The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway — The narrow-gauge toy train climbing from the plains of West Bengal to Darjeeling, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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