So when will the new Orient Express start taking bookings? Opening a rail tunnel under the Bosphorus on Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, put his country at the heart of a new London to Beijing route. An “iron Silk Road”, according to Turkish officials, is taking shape that will link China through Central Asia and Turkey to Europe. In the process it will open up some of the most poorly connected parts of the world.
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