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Personal liability insurance is very common in Germany. A relative once told me a story of a lady who walked along a (reserved) tram line and was hit by a tram. She was liable to pay for the damage to the tram and the compensation claims of the passengers for whiplash :o:o

ID Checks can be done on the move, I also believe that due to Schengen checks can take place a certain number of kms from the border - "personenkontrolle" (control of persons) it's called in Germany. Not a concept familiar outside the Schengen Zone, especially not the UK where many carry no...

Useless fact: every mainline rail station in Switzerland, no matter how rural and/or lightly used it is, has a ticket machine.:twisted: However, no facilities at the station and buying onboard makes sense at a lot of stations in this country. Lots of rural and quiet ATW, Northern, FGW and...

I agree. In my humble opinion, if Northern can't employ resources to offer the opportunity to purchase a ticket either at the origin station, onboard or quickly at (all) exits of the station, then they have no business harassing people in this way. Perhaps these RPIs would be better employed...

Fare evasion alone is not seen as a trivial offense in Switzerland, but if he's convicted for assault I'm not sure what the result will be.

I think it is most likely a remarkable coincidence and one that has for sure saved lives. I have come across off-duty US Servicemen travelling on trains between European cities for leisure quite a number of times, it seems a popular thing to do. I'd also agree it is part of a worrying trend...

Made the top stories in that part of the world. Seems like a young guy doing some traveling ticketless unhappy at being (rightly) thrown off. Sympathies to the staff involved.

Sorry to be pedantic, but there is a small difference west of Preston. :D For example, an Anytime Day Return Blackpool North to Preston is £8.60 but Blackpool South to Preston is £7.90. They are informally accepted interchangeably though.

I can only really comment on the Blackpool South - Preston section of the route but it's generally relaxed and trouble free outside of the high peak summer season (July/August). The big draw on the line is Blackpool Pleasure Beach, that's where a lot of the groups seem to be heading in the...

I think the only situation where it's actually compulsory company policy is if you're buying designated Duty Free items from shops like "World Duty Free" and the buyer flying to a non-EU destination receives the appropriate discount. If not they are out of pocket from not being able to claim the...

Not really surprised. There was a very rowdy group of "holidaymakers" (I prefer the term yobs) onboard a late afternoon BPS bound service last week. I'm from Blackpool originally so have seen all sorts and this group were extremely bad, stupidly drunk and shouting abuse at each other and fellow...

If you're an already an EU/EEA citizen, I'm not sure where the benefit lies of obtaining a UK EHIC too? Most EU/EEA countries have either free at use healthcare like the NHS funded directly through taxation or compulsory health insurance paid out of salaries for all citizens. It's not like the...

They work well in some continental European countries (and indeed elsewhere) for many reasons; off-bus integrated ticketing and fare control, more willingness to stand-up for short distances, better cycle lanes, road and bus stop layouts, lower traffic volumes in some cases, knowledge of how...

It all sounds good and shows that DB wants to win back customers from the Fernbusse (coaches). I'm sure it will help to do so as DB's image among passengers in Germany has become worse since the numerous strikes and disruption of this year. The new offers are quite tempting, unfortunately I'm in...

I think it depends on the operator with MFB-F. I travelled Bad Oeynhausen to Amsterdam on MFB earlier this year and the operator was a German company (the name escapes me). The driver made detailed announcements in German, with decent summaries in English, absolutely sufficient for any Dutch...

I tend to agree, most Western European nations (including France) know the problem well and have to spend their money and resources on the migrants that they have on their territory - at least the ones that claim asylum there (in France that is 60,000 or so in 2014). Processing that number costs...

Sure there's a problem in Calais, but migrants and asylum is very much a Europe wide issue rather the UK's or France's problem. It's arguably worse elsewhere in Europe too. In 2014, Germany for instance had six times the number of asylum applications compared to the UK (202,815 vs 31,945)...

Yes, they've been part of the Lufthansa Group alongside Austrian Airlines and the other subsidiaries like Germanwings for some years now. Swiss is generally said to be a notch above Lufthansa in terms of service though. A good point is codeshares, Lufthansa Group airlines often codeshare on US...

AMT Coffee is probably my favourite coffee chain, a very good choice for stations. I've had some excellent coffees in some very strange (transport) locations, one was a vending machine at Vienna Airport which offered a coffee shop style menu including a Bailey's Irish Coffee :o

Swiss are a very highly regarded carrier, never flown long-haul with them but their staff tend to be nice and efficient with a good range of food/drinks available in economy. It's not an insignificant double back to Zürich though. However, United offer Economy Plus where you can upgrade at a...