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EuroNight is still in use. Also, the sleeping car is a Comfortline, same as the main Nightjet fleet.

Remember there was no HS1 or LGV Nord at this time, so travel time would have been slower either side of the tunnel - which itself has a 160km/h limit. I imagine that the Night Ferry would have not been axed and instead diverted through the tunnel, almost certainly with a somewhat shortened...

And it's frequently covered in graffiti. Poland has some nice variety.

Weren't there some really long interurban trams in the US back in the day?

I had a similar issue with "hotel power" on an Amsterdam to Munich journey in 2021. In that case, they stopped the train and reset the locomotive, which fixed the issue.

VagonWEB.cz has them and much more.

ETIAS, which will eliminate most passport stamping, should help.

Any 745/1 run to/from Norwich, as that's where the depot is.

London to Berlin by Eurostar and ICE, First Class, in a day to go to Innotrans in 2016.

Also, the Germans got some of the locomotives taken to France with the BEF; there's a photo of one operating S-Bahn services in Berlin after the war: English tender locomotives in Berlin (site in German)

The one thing that the Germans had that could do precision dive bombing was the Stuka and that was rather slow. It got withdrawn rather quickly from operations over Britain due to heavy losses. Aerial gunnery was a different kettle of fish and there is plenty of footage of locomotives coming...

They were common targets for fighter bombers and fighters. RAF Hornchurch claimed over 200 destroyed by their pilots. You had a few end up at the bottom of the ocean too when the ships transporting them were sunk.

Are you going via InterCity or Regional Trains?

How many borders does the VSOE cross when it runs to Istanbul?

Everything about Edinburgh to Paris is solvable with political will.

They've said they're going for loco and carriages. While they're being somewhat coy about who they've made a deal with in their email newsletters, I'm personally thinking they might have gone with the Polish company PESA.

They're all Eurostar now, aren't they?

South Africa has been having some major problems in recent years with cable theft and vandalism to the point safety is compromised.

They're going via Magdeburg on some nights due to engineering works on the high-speed line via Stendal.

They're using a Lineas E186 loco for the haulage and a bunch of hired-in vehicles with vinyls on the side.