Asian Rails

[GWR]

Trans-Asia Railway Project Map, Southern Corridor of Europe - Asia Routes:-
http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/common/TIS/TAR/iran.asp
UNESCAP Page on same project:-
http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/common/T.../scorridor.asp

[ooddy]

is the project still active? Who is running the show and paying for it?

[GWR]

I suspect no one. I suppose the idea is that the 'international conference circle of engaged expense account holders' creates the pipedreams and then individual nations gradually see bits of it as a good idea and build short stretches of it to communicate with their neighbors. I suspect railway technology will be completely out of date by the time consensus is reached; by which time global warming will probably have swept away more low-lying sections anyway.

[GWR]

Here's a large UN-ESCAP Report circa 2000 in downloadable .PDF Format; which includes a lot of maps & route descriptions.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC - Development of The Trans-Asian Railway
TRANS-ASIAN RAILWAY IN THE NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR
NORTHERN EUROPE TO THE PERSIAN GULF :-

http://www.unescap.org/tctd/pubs/fil...nsfulltext.pdf