This 1,200-mile (1932 kms) journey links Singapore to Bangkok with plenty of curling jungle, rubber plantations and paddy fields on the way. The dress code here is more casual than on her sister train, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express; think fashionably creased cotton and linen as befits a colonial sojourn in SE Asia. The food aboard is Asian-fusion and we recommend gin and tonic as a sundowner in true Somerset Maugham style. Along the Singapore -Bangkok route and you'll also see Penang and take a bridge over the River Kwai on the way - has to be done really...