Vanished Routes

Vanished RoutesEpisodes

Every episode

One vanished route per episode, twice a week. Each card links to the full episode; the rest are on the way.

EP 001 · OCT 03 · LAST RAN 1979

The Hippie Trail

London to Kathmandu, 12,000 miles by painted coach and cheap train — and the two events in 1979 that ended it in a single year.

BOARDING

EP 002 · OCT 07 · LAST RAN 1977

The Orient Express

The legend's final direct Paris–Istanbul run, and what happened to the line afterward.

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EP 003 · OCT 10 · LAST RAN 1969

The Atlantic Liners

When crossing the ocean was the destination, not the delay.

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EP 004 · OCT 14 · LAST RAN 1946

Pan Am Clippers

The flying boats that took six days to cross the Pacific.

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EP 005 · OCT 17 · LAST RAN 1937

The Zeppelin Lines

Airships crossed the Atlantic on a fixed schedule — until they didn't.

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EP 006 · OCT 21 · LAST RAN 1861

The Pony Express

Eighteen months of glory, then made extinct by a wire.

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EP 007 · OCT 24 · LAST RAN 2003

Concorde

Three hours across the Atlantic, then the flight that never took off again.

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EP 008 · OCT 28 · LAST RAN 1985

Route 66

America's most famous road, decommissioned on its centennial year.

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