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Some years ago I was in the Loire Valley using regional trains to visit a succession of chateaux ending up at Chinon. I speak good French and explained to the clerk in Blois that I planned to make two stops en route to visit Chaumont and Amboise - what ticket did I need?, and was simply sold a...

When my wife's train from Amsterdam was cancelled last February because of storm damage, we called customer service and they rebooked her in business premier, even joking that they hoped she wasn't upset by the upgrade. I'd follow the advice above and call them.

It was always the word itself that amused me (and I speak French and have a francophone wife), which apparently has its origins in the proof given to pilgrims who had completed the pilgrimage to Compostela. There is a perfectly good French word for 'validate' ... valider.

Contactless payments can be used on the Rome Metro (and I presume on the buses too), and I have successfully used my UK card there without any problems.

Of which the supreme example must be Lille Europe, with four platforms/tracks numbered 43-46 ...

Hallo all. COVID restrictions permitting, I will be travelling to Utrecht in the new year. The quickest route seems to be with a change in Rotterdam rather than going all the way to Amsterdam and changing there, and I wondered if anyone had any experience of taking Eurostar to and from Rotterdam...

Of course, it may all change again at short notice before I need to travel, but I was wondering about how the COVID requirements work on the Amsterdam service, as you go through French passport control at Saint Pancras, then pass through France and Belgium before reaching the Netherlands? Whose...

I can't remember precisely what they requested but when I was in Italy last October, FS were requesting additional information at their machines ... which I found very frustrating when trying to buy a ticket minutes before the train I wanted left.

Cannes. I passed through a few years ago on the TGV and remarked to my teenage (at the time) son on what a dump the station seemed compared to the glamorous, movie-star reputation of the town, at which the woman sitting opposite looked up and said, It's true! And I second the vote for Liège...

Plus Kingston, of course, half-way between Montreal and Toronto - don't know how I forgot that one. Curiously enough I also discovered the other day that there is a village in County Durham called Toronto (named after the city in Canada rather than the other way round), but it is not on the...

Not quite an exact match, but the former Canadian Pacific terminus in Montreal was named Windsor Station, but the tracks have long since been removed and trains (suburban only now) terminate some distance from the old building at the new Lucien-L'Allier station, named for a former director of...

So I'm not alone! Current remix for calls, old chime for texts.

My, some of those bring back memories! We moved to Canada in 1970 when I was a train-mad twelve year old, and keen collector of timetables. I probably had most of the CP/CN and early VIA schedules, and can remember climbing a steep snow bank on one occasion to get pictures of The Canadian...

Curiously enough, I said almost exactly the same to my son as we passed through it on our way from Nice, at which the young Frenchwoman sitting opposite us looked up and said, 'Yes, it's true'. (We had gone to Nice for my son's 18th birthday, and had flights booked, but this was during the ash...

Another vote for Montparnasse. Cramped, oppressive, and badly connected. I loathe it so much I have been known to take the RER to Massy if I am connecting from Eurostar. But I can't speak for anywhere beyond France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. Mind you, Liège-Saint-Lambert isn't somewhere...

The actual trains themselves are not running (or not showing up if I search STP to Lille for the dates in question).

Hello all. If wonder if anybody here knows the answer to this question. I have tickets from Ebbsfleet to Lille for August. Although I haven't had formal notice yet, I know the train I am booked on is not running, and even it it were would not be stopping at Ebbsfleet because stops there are...

A tangential issue, which may be covered elsewhere: apologies if so. My wife was due to take this service to Avignon in August, where she teaches in a summer music school. The school was cancelled a couple of months ago, so E* cancelling the trains means at least she won't be out of pocket as...

The north bay served the now-lifted line to Tutbury. I believe the south bay was for trains to Walsall via Lichfield. The Lichfield line still connects to the main line at Wychnor, and is used as an occasional diversionary route for XC services towards B'ham. Extending the Cross City line is new...

I may be mistaken, but having lived in Burton until seven years ago, I thought there had been a partial realignment to increase the speed through the station a few years back. The other question that would affect any decision is the ongoing issue of reopening the line to Leicester for passenger...