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Trivia: Longest European Journey without changing trains?

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What is the longest Rail Journey that can be undertaken wholly in European without changing trains. Sorry if this is on the wrong area or has been asked before. Any help would be appreciated as I am having a long " Discussion" with my wife,
 
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pitdiver said:
What is the longest Rail Journey that can be undertaken wholly in European without changing trains. Sorry if this is on the wrong area or has been asked before. Any help would be appreciated as I am having a long " Discussion" with my wife,
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What do you count as Europe? Mainly what do you count Russia as?
 
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higthomas said:
What do you count as Europe? Mainly what do you count Russia as?
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Taking Russia West of the Urals as part of Europe means we can ignore the Trans Siberian etc. The Moscow-Nice must therefore come first as a through train, followed presumably by Moscow-Paris.

However, there are seasonal through coaches Moscow-Burgas and Varna (and Bar) which for political reasons run via Warsaw and Budapest. Journey time 60+ hours.

http://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=ZSSK&kategorie=EC&cislo=PKPIC:14002/14003%20(131)|ČD:131|ZSSK:131|START:131&nazev=Varsovia&rok=2016
 
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Longest I can find for Finland is the Helsinki-Kemijärvi sleeper service:

InterCity 265, dep: 18h52, arr: 8h45, 13 hours 53 mins

I think (seen in another thread) there are longer day-time routes in Germany at least, and of course anything via European Russia

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Does anyone know if the Paris-Moscow trains use Berlin hbf, I assume they do. If this is the case, I suspect they use the higher level platforms?
 
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