Recent content by Gordon

Can someone kindly direct me to an up to date summary of what is left loco hauled in south west Germany please. (if there is one!) Many thanks

I'm late to this discussion as I have been on a circuit Soton - Norway - Iceland - NYC - LHR over the last 3 weeks. However as an expert of 60+ years on Geneva (my family lived and worked in the area) I can sum up: 1) Swiss railway system has not had 'return' ticket of any kind in the modern...

The so called 'Golden Pass route' was a creation of the 1980s when the number of tourist groups coming to Switzerland from outside Europe grew immensely. As most groups wanted to 'do' the 'big three' tourists areas - Luzern, the Interlaken / Jungfrau area and the Lake Geneva area, a 'through...

Happy with all that thanks for your kind words. By the way I have travelled in Norway several times and love the country.

You are correct - no service exists. The hovercraft is a proposal. In advance of my 2019 trip I must say I was somewhat surprised that there was no ferry route as it seems a rather obvious link for summer tourism, but I guess ferries on the Great Lakes went the way of everything else in the...

One or two comments on what has been said so far: 1) gutter running can of course occur 'by default' if the double track tramway runs along a 'two-way' road narrow enough. One example is on route 68 in Marseille which was one of the three French original tramways that survived the...

Yes, that's correct. Another benefit of staying down the coast at Oakville or Burlington. For visits to Toronto itself, we parked the car in the park and ride at Burlington GO. On the final day, we toured around the countryside north west of Toronto in the car, stopping here and there including...

Dare I say it here but car rental is an option for a hassle free trip to Niagara...let me explain a bit Myself and my wife did a Toronto add on to a Cunard transatlantic crossing in August 2019. After a few days in New York, we took the Maple Leaf from Penn station to Aldershot (Ontario, not...

You've done a lot of hard work to create this so please only take the following a constructive criticism. 1) First of all the title 'World Railway Map'. It is not a map of all the world's railways and I can't see a definitive introductory explanation to make this clear. A better title for what...

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Oh dear. To be blunt, corporate travel booking agencies (I have long experience of same) can be a complete liability. They are often 'expert' at the 'easy' travel (such as a flight from Heathrow to New York), but know little about 'real' travel options. As well as annoying experiences of my...

not completely except for 15 april to 20 May 1777333206 If at all possible tell your company that the corporate booker is not needed on this occasion and buy the tickets yourself and get reimbursed through your expenses system! The process is simple: 1) take the very cheap shuttle bus to St...

(1) It is a Corail of type VU (compartments - as opposed to Corail Vtu which were open coaches). (2) the doors close to the end of the carriage are not 'unusual' for some versions of Corail coach (3) Corail coaches have always been used on both inter city and regional services. Although in later...

As usual with these 'trivia' threads, there are far too many variables. What is 'inter-city'? What is 'regional'? aka one person's inter city is another person's regional. There is no worldwide 'rule' as to what constitutes an intercity train. For example in Switzerland some 'inter-city'...

Automatic level crossings have been around in France almost as long as I've been alive (I'm coming up 66 years old...). There is very little reason why road users - especially those guiding or driving unusual loads - should not know how to treat them. And there is advice out there in France...