Recent content by oldtrvller

When much younger both Italy and Austria by ferry and train. Later travelled extensively by train in Holland, Belgium and France. More recently since retirement extensive travel in Germany (using Eurostar each time).

Two years ago I had a ticket for the morning ICE train Cologne to Brussels and wanted to change to use the local trains. I was told by staff at the Travel Centre in Cologne station that I would have to buy a new ticket as the ICE ticket was not valid on the local trains. I believe it is...

I have just looked at the times of trains ex Brussels to London in late June and discovered that the 1056 has been moved to a departure of 1008 and that the next train departs at 1252. This means that the connection from Cologne ( 0742 to 0935) is no longer going to be feasible for all but...

No problem at Brussels - at St Pancras I was automatically changed to coach 18 without asking - coach nearest exit at Brussels. "Correspondance" was open but didn't need to use it. Chris

I first bought the Germany Inter-rail ticket in 2014 and I remember there was no Diary to be filled in. The following year the Diary appeared and I remember querying it with the Inter-rail people but just getting a stock response which if I remember was just that it was now necessary to be...

I have just returned from Germany where I was using a 1st class one-country pass. I found that although the Calendar was date-stamped on the first trip, in most case the Diary was not even looked at let alone date-stamped! For DB and DB-Regio trains the following happened. ICE/IC -out of all...

Eurostar is 10:58 off St Pancras International Chris

Solution found - As I have a flexible ticket Brussels to Cologne and just in case I have problems, I decided to book a seat reservation only on the 16:16 ICE - this being cheaper than booking on the semi-fast 14:56 with 2 changes which requires a new ticket. Interestingly the 16:16 is shown as...

Just purchased a business premier ticket to Brussels for travel in June. The seat I have is in coach 1 so this will be on a new e320 train. Can someone advise whether in Brussels this coach be at the buffer end or the country end. If country end I must change this as I have the 20 minute...

Route is Brussels to Cologne If I purchase a ticket valid for the ICE train would it be valid, if that train is missed, on the semifast alternative (Brussels change at Welkenraedt and Aachen to Cologne)? I ask this because of the current requirements at Brussels Midi and the fact that the...

Further to a previous thread on the Travel Report on Interrail tickets, in 12 days the conductors never asked to see it. Having said that there were quite a few trains including 2 IC trains were the ticket was never checked. On 2 occasions using RE (semi-fast) trains I travelled for over 2 hours...

Just come back from 12 days in Germany and these included the strike days. A few Intercity trains were running on the Wednesday and Thursday. Tried to visit the Ruhr area on the Thursday - got to Wuppertal on an IC train and saw no DB Regio S-bahn RB or RE trains running. Decided to go back...

Decision made - I will continue with the holiday! Thank you all for your replies. Chris

I sent an e-mail to the interrail site this morning asking whether it was necessary to use the Travel Report for single country tickets. They have now replied that as from 1st January it is necessary to use the Travel Report for all tickets. This annoys me. In my opinion the whole point of a...

Thank you all for your replies - I will try to avoid having to fill in the planner - I don't always know my final destination!! With regard to the Benelux Interrail ticket this is just an extension of what used to be called "Benelux Tourrail" which was certainly available in the 1970's. Chris