The Great Railway Bazaar

Just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-Seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, foods, faiths and cultures of the East. For us now, as much as Theroux then, to visit the lands of "The Great Railway Bazaar" is an encounter with all that is truly foreign and exotic - and with what we have since lost.