With its mountain vistas and sprawling wine country, South Africa was a favourite destination for its train-side scenery.

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It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destination for blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.

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With the airspace having been closed, a marathon trek started with a train journey from Nottingham to London, followed by a faster, sleeker train from London to Brussels and then the longest road trip of my life to the destination for Saturday's WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler.

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If constructed, the coal port would be the destination for coal mined in Montana and Wyoming that travels through the Columbia Gorge by train.

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