Evening Standard - London, June 25th, 1999
READY for a Rocky ride?" quipped a passenger as I climbed aboard Train No 5 bound for Prince Rupert, a soggy fishing port on the far west coast of Canada. For the next two days I would indeed be riding up and over the Rockies, from the bear-infested forests of Jasper National Park to the 12,969ft peak of Mount Robson, through the mystic Interior Plateau of British Columbia, then down to the wild and wooded shores of the Pacific.
The Skeena railway is one of the world's great scenic train journeys, yet when I hopped on at Jasper in May there were barely enough travellers to warrant three carri...
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