In July 2017, BBC News journalist Steve Evans called it "one of the most bizarre train journeys in the world", and said, "It is a political journey, it is designed to make the point that the train goes and can go no further".
2017年7月，BBC記者Stephen Evans稱其為「全球最奇怪的火車之旅」，並表示「這是一個政治旅程，是設計一個列車能夠到達最遠且不能再更遠的極點」。