After setting out over four months ago, the first cargo train to travel on the longest rail route in the world has returned home. On November 18, the train departed Yiwu in eastern China, a major wholesale centre for small consumer goods,  and passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France and finally Spain. The entire round-trip is approximately 16,000 miles on the new Yixin'ou cargo line, which ends in the Spanish capital Madrid. The train has returned to China after travelling on the world's longest route to Spain The newly railway route is the longest in the world, longer still than Russia's famous Transsiberian railwa,y linking Moscow to Vladivostok, near Russia's border with China.
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Train set out from Yiwu in eastern China back in November last year
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Was laden with Christmas goods, and returned with olive oil and ham
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Officials in China have lauded the route as vital for the economy
The goods on the train which arrived in @placeholder for example had to be transferred to different wagons at three points during the trip because of incompatible track gauges in different countries.