The new silk road: From China to the U.K., world’s longest train route arrives in London

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It was once known as the Silk Road, the route along which trade first flourished between China and Europe, bringing silks, spices, Chinese porcelain and gunpowder from the east. But Wednesday the arrival of a freight train at Barking, east London …
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