The foremost freight train all the way from China to the capital of Britain-London has hit the tracks–on a trip, which will travel over an astounding 12000 Km stretch and bypass through nine countries.

On Sunday the train departed from the Yiwu West  railway station in Zhejiang Province, China hauling commodity worth of £4 million, which includes suitcases, socks and other household stuff.

Its marathon voyage shall see its end in Barking, east London, after having been rattling along for 18 days.

The expedition is a faction of efforts to advance the trade ties with Europe, with the path inexpensive than air freight and swifter than sending goods by sea.

Its path will twist all the way through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France and eventually the UK.

The China Railway Corporation is in-charge of the service, and the Great Britain is  ranked eighth on the country list as its destination, being London its 15th city.

The fresh route is ready to improve business binds amid the UK and China with commodities like bags and clothing carried along the re-begun Silk Road, linking Asia and Europe, as per  The Indian Express, which quoted a report from Xinhua news daily.

By intensifying China’s railway infrastructure and network, the focus is on reinforcement  trade, which is also a part of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s ‘One belt, One Road’ policy,publicized in late 2013.

The classic route is not the only extensive railway voyage between Asia and Europe has been revealed of late.

A fresh  Japanese scheme imagines expanding the Trans-Siberian railway, possibly letting commuters  can take a journey all the way from London, UK to to Tokyo, Japan by Train–a stretch of 6,000 miles.

In the last quarter of 2016, MailOnline said in a story that the fresh connections would go around Vladivostok, at present the last stop on the world famous pathway, with a four-mile flyover or subway connecting the city of Khabarovsk to the Russian Pacific island of Sakhalin.