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SNCF Connect. Worked really for our OuiGo/InOui Paris-Strasbourg trip. I'd rate it to be as good as VR's app.

I think most of these have been said, but if you visit Il Duomo, you (at least last time I was there) can get access to the roof ! Check out Il Cavallo di Leonaro da Vinci at Hippodromo San Siro - I saw it unveiled in 1999. Take the train up to Como, then back via the mainline station - you...

Would be very interested too. When I lived in Brighton my bedroom window overlooked Lewes Road Station, albeit the loading area for Sainsbury's as it was then (and still is). I found two pictures of the Kemp Town tunnel here...

Seems to be. Pretty hard to get a good street view on Google Earth, but certainly that's Martello Tower #1 in the near distance. I found this picture: https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p86530707/hF4D695E1#hf4d695e1 which if you look, the signal gantry above the 3rd/4th coach matches the one in...

VR of Finland not mentioned yet. After doing 6 months of long-distance commuting my impression of them has gone up. Clean trains, reasonably good service between Helsinki and Tampere - ok, lots of trackwork at the moment. Connections are usually held, staff are superb - when things go wrong...

Sounds like a good plan. VR offer insurance for about 5 eur I think. If you haven't been here for a while, then change at Tikkurila - the station has been completely rebuilt - now a mini shopping mall.

Each train, time and date has its own pricing - the earlier the cheaper. Can't really say that there's a maximum price, but as an example (economy class), booking for tomorrow Helsinki-Tampere, it varies between 16.90 for the local trains (this price is fixed, but a 2h19 journey time on an Sm4...

Fares like that do not exist. Demand based pricing is used and fares tend to be a little higher the closer to departure time. I find about 3-4 days before is optimal. To buy tickets, download the VR app or buy from the site. The seat is included in the price as standard.

If they're like the Finnish sleeping cars then they'll be excellent!

For Finland, juliadata.fi has pretty much everything you can know without actually being part of the rail companies. Strictly speaking juliadata is just an interface for visualising and searching the public data feeds from Finntraffic VR's train tracker for their app and website is a...

You got that the wrong way around... 20bn in consultancy and 5bn in a project...more specifically project planning and analysis with the outcome that it costs too much (due to consultancy costs). Seriously though. Camarthen-Aberystwyth for a start, then continue the Treherbert line back...

You're not going to hear anything until after August for various reasons .. probably the main one is that Finnish summer holidays have started for the next 3 months; the timetables for September aren't available yet either.

Craig-ii-eye, but the "ii-eye" becomes more "ah" in colloquial pronunciation. Sorry, not going to try IPA here. Grew up near there, both pronounciations were used.

Is the pedestrian tunnel still in operation at Canterbury? When I lived there it always stank of pee....never used it.

Took me a while to find the level crossing bit --- good music though. 4m12 is a good place ... I could imagine that would send most Health and Safety people into apoplexy ;)

There's also the line via Rhiwsaeson that crosses at Creigau. Isn't the plan to use this for rail from Fairwater to Creigau? If you follow that you still have quite an extant route all the way to Llantrisant and the modern Pontyclun station. The route between Beddau and Tonteg is now lost...

The southbound train to Turku is timed to connect with the Northbound train from Helsinki at Toijala It should just be a cross-platform connection - done it a few times. For June-July, I would recommend Onnibus for Helsinki-Turku - there's at least one per hour...

A Hungarian learning English you say....there have been difficulties with Hungarian-English phrasebooks in the past as this documentary shows: I'll get my coat, but it was too good a chance not to take up 8-)

I did some digging on VR's website and for pretty much all jobs involving work on board trains (conductors, restaurant staff, drivers) there is the requirement to speak Finnish and "an advantage" to English and Swedish. Crews on the former Allegro services would most likely need to have known...

That's actually a good question as we're pretty much cashless and using apps/travel cars (eg: Helsinki area) is much more common.. At least Matkahuolto and Onnibus only use apps amd for the "U-linja" busses outside of Helsinki I haven't seen any cash being used for many years. I've just asked a...