Some describe the 20-hour journey across 700km of desert as a "once in a lifetime experience" or a real life version of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune. READ MORE: Police wade through deep ...

Crossing the desert in northwest Africa is the incredible Mauritania train, also known as the iron ore train, whose carriages extend so far into the distance that they disappear from view.

Every Friday at 9am a train rolls out of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, heading north-east to Nanyuki, a city at the foot of Mount Kenya. The old locomotive sounds its horn right on schedule before ...

NAIROBI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) on Wednesday upgraded the Chinese-built standard gauge railway (SGR) Madaraka Express passenger train with premium class coaches ...

The Sindh Culture and Tourism Department and Special Initiatives Facilitation Centre have opened a new chapter in tourism by organising the Thar Desert Train Safari. Following its maiden trip on ...