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“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I were on it.” So wrote American novelist Paul Theroux in the opening lines of his. The romance of riding the rails has not diminished in the decades since, and luxury travel operators are taking things up a notch on two classic Eurasian train journeys.

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