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The belgish railways (NMBS/SNCB/NGBE) use all the three official languages (Dutch, French and German) for other purposes than passenger information as well.
Customer facing staff is required to speak both Dutch and French (the two big languages) and should use the language the customer uses...
Due to a rather serious shortage of trains and staff, the train operating company Eurobahn currently has two hired in sets of locomotive hauled coaching stock in service.
The RE3 (Düsseldorf-Hamm via Oberhausen) currently has a mix of Euro-Express (type Am, declassified) and TRI (one Bduu, and...
The Rhine-Ruhr Area is certainly a good start but there are some international services (e.g. line 29 between Neukirchen-Vluyn and Venlo) into the wonderfull world of the dutch "Streekbussen" (regional buses) which in turn have international lines into Belgium linking up with the network of De...
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