Yiwu–Madrid railway line

[2]) From Yiwu, a trading centre 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of Shanghai, the track passes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France, terminating at the Spanish capital.

Therefore, trains go through Bogie exchange (or, more likely, have containers reloaded to railcars of a different gauge[2]) at Dostyk, Kazakhstan; Brest, Belarus; and Hendaye, France.

[1] The InterRail Group launched this train connection in November 2014, in cooperation with Chinese Railways and Deutsche Bahn (DB).

[1] Trains are run by different companies, which are a joint venture between the German Deutsche Bahn AG and Russian Railways (RZhD).

The international project follows Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping’s promise to establish an "economic belt" along the historic Silk Road and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for "a new wave of industrialisation across the Eurasian continent.