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Does anyone know if the extra questions for EES ( accommodation, funds, etc ) are still suspended? I'm off to Brussels tomorrow but haven't decided where I'm heading after that. I don't want to bother with dummy reservations if not needed.
Re break of journey - there's nothing to suggest it's not allowed. I stopped off at Manningtree last month for a few hours to take a stroll round Dedham Vale - staff on the train and at Liverpool street had no issues.
I think that's almost certainly correct.
This video (about a year old) has front-on view of the surviving station buildings ( at 1:30 )
Presumably the portico has long since gone.
We went in 2023 before the through couchette had started for the summer and all our connections ( changing at Ruse, Gorna Oryahovita, Dimitrovograd and v.v. ) worked out fine.
We were maybe an hour late into Halkali outbound and a bit early into Dimitrovgrad when heading back to Romania -...
As @MrJeeves says, Southern have got it hopelessly wrong here. It would interesting to see what their 'thinking' on this might be if you're able to share any of their emails (with names redacted.)
I can't tell you anything useful about rolling stock unfortunately - it's more than thirty years since I was last there.
Many of the most interesting historical sites are easy to get to by train - for example Bulla Regia (near Jendouba ), the enormous amphitheatre at El Djem and of course the...
Of course trains divide in many countries. Perhaps the people posting are so used to air or coach travel that they don't realise it's completely normal.
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