Сахалин

Stepping onboard the overnight sleeper;-Hi Guy's, I have two very short videos here of some trains I saw and travelled on a recent work trip to Sakhalin, Sakhalin is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, which is about one-quarter the size of Japan, and just off the East coast of Russia, and just north of Japan. I had to travel from Yuzhno the capitol in the south to Nogliki in the north, on an overnight train, a journey of some 14 hours, I had never been on a train for 14 hours before, and although there was not a great deal to see on the journey, other than trees when the light was good enough to see out, it was an interesting railway experience, each carriage on the train has a stewardess, who checked your ticket and your passport on boarding, even though we were not crossing any international borders. The checking of a passport by a rather straight faced and robust looking stewardess to board a train seemed like a throwback to the days of the USSR as seen in an old spy movie of the cold war years. The stewardess's also prepare each compartment with fresh linen and they also served food, coffee and vodka etc in the first class carriages, and whilst each carriage had a stewardess the level of service was slightly different for each class. The journey was like going back in time to when train travel was quite different, the trains looked quite dated but were clan and comfortable and had mats carpets and curtains and it seemed typically Russian, dated and <b>...</b>
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Great Railway Journeys, Sakhalin Russia