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I definitely recommend this as well. Dortmund - Frankfurt on an ICE via the high-speed line and return along the river Rhine - train plus scenery. If you are interested in commercial planes as well, you could visit Frankfurt airport between your trips. Let us know what you decided and what...

I can confirm that all ICE trains between Paris and Germany are planned to be formed by class 407 Velaros now. Nevertheless, a class 406 might be used if not enough Velaros are available.

Accepting, what else... :D

I totally disagree with your statement. If somebody works for any TOC and just wants "to play trains", he/she is not suitable for the job - it is the TOCs duty to recognize this and take measures. I do not believe this has something to do with whether the employee is full or part time. What...

I am speechless Phil! How better fitting could an advisable map be relating to my original question. Thank you very, very much!

Dear Stevieboy, I am sorry to read that you and your group suffered from so many delays. No good performance we delivered. I am glad to hear that you enjoyed the journeys and at least the destinations anyway.

Yes, it was about two or three years ago. But: it was already forbidden then and he did let me in anyway. I asked politely and he was friendly, too - that's it, no big thing. Maybe it helped that he -correctly- judged me as a non-terrorist :-)

I was surprised myself. I travelled around the network as I usually do when I am in London. I arrived at one of the northern terminus' of the Northern Line and wanted to return with the same train. The driver came along the platform and I simply asked. He replied that it is strictly...

Thank you for the interesting information. I fear as long as I live in the wrong country, my London Underground career needs to wait... ;-) But I did have the Northern Line cab ride as well :-)

Unfortunately, I have no idea. But the salary of a LU driver is comparable to some jobs in the middle management of TOCs in Germany. And what is deducted as tax stretches up to 45 or 47 %. I do more and more think how I could manage to become a LU driver - fix-term, full-time of course ;-)

I am absolutely fine with Underground drivers earning £50,000. I was just a bit surprised. When checking "Careers" page of TOCs and found job availabilities for customer service assitants or train managers I think to remember payment here was at around £25,000 a year. And just thought "From...

Do I (living outside UK) understand this correctly? The mentioned salary of £49,673 means that a full-time London Underground driver does earn nearly £50,000 a year? That sounds quite a lot to me. Can anyone confirm this? Are wages that high because you need to find an affordable place to...

Eurostar's or our's? For our's it depends. If there is a cancellation of their train, they might take the next train to Germany and go "off duty". If there is a bigger problem on the line, they might also have to work on the next available service back to Germany as the scheduled staff for this...

Thank you Taunton, for the interesting insight. At Deutsche Bahn we have train crews operating to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Apart from English they need to speak the language of the destination's country quite fluently. And of course we only have very little who speak Dutch before...

I am sorry flierfy, my mistake. The coaches are numbered 21 to 29 and 31 to 39. Coaches 24 and 34 are not existing, so that sums up to eight coaches.

Thanks a lot for your clarifying responses. Do you also know how long the break between the outbound and the inbound trips are? Only working for example Brussels - London - Brussels including some preparation time before the first train and some sort of debriefing after the last... to they get...

Ahh, alright. I saw them in Brussels on Friday and yesterday, but obviously not all platforms are covered by them

Hi Alex, is your post a reply to my one? I fear I don't understand exactly, what you mean...

I just returned yesterday (Sunday) from London. I took the 15h04 ex St. Pancras, arrived five minutes late into Brussels at 18h10 and could quite easily make the connection to the 18h25 ICE to Germany which departed on time. Being in the front coaches of the Eurostar when arriving at Brussels...

You are right gordon! What made me be even more surprised yesterday (Sunday), when I returned from London to Germany. On my way to London last Friday, I noticed security checks at Bruxelles Midi station down in the concourse. It seemed to me, that NOT all platform entrances had been covered...