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I was in Liège in February, to attend a performance at the very fine opera house, but I couldn't help but feel that it suffered by comparison with French cities of a similar size, despite some good museums and interesting historic buildings. Yes, Wallonia has lost a lot of its traditional...

In 1974 we were living in Canada, having moved there in 1970 when my father, who was in the shipping industry, took a job in Montreal. Strictly speaking my first journey on a foreign train was shortly after arriving in Canada when, aged 12, my parents let me take the suburban service from...

A few years ago I was in the Loire valley, staying in Blois. I wanted to visit the chateaux at Chaumont, Amboise, and Chinon, so I went to the ticket counter (I do speak French) and explained I would need to break my journey twice (and make a connection in Tours) and what ticket would I need...

I need to go to Liège for a few days in February, and have duly purchased an 'Any Belgian Station' return. That being said, while I am happy to be told otherwise, I'm not sure there is that much to see, and was toying with the idea of popping across the border to Aachen or maybe Cologne. Two...

Possibly relevant. I have just had an email from Trenitalia regarding a booking for next month, advising me the rolling stock for my train has changed and assigning me a new seat. I can't recall ever getting something like that in the UK.

1) Platform information on the printed displayed timetable. 2) Displays showing the composition of the train and where to stand on the platform - even if (as happened to me in Lyon last week), they occasionally suddenly change direction sending everyone running madly to the opposite end of the...

I happen to have been on one of the refurbished TGV inouï trains from Lyon to Lille last week (albeit not in first class on this occasion) and did use the snack bar. It's microwaved snack bar type food, but the choice is better than similar facilities in the UK, and the layout of the coach is...

No, but you should get at seat service IIRC. (Ed. Actually, now I think about it, my experience of at-seat service has been on the Paris-Milan services, not on domestic TGVs, even though I do treat myself to first class when I can.)

For France (with map): https://www.sncf.com/en/booking-itinerary/geolocalisation

I understand that (though before Part Dieu was built presumably longer distance trains would have gone to Brotteaux). My question was about ticketing rather than services.

I'm just curious. I'm in Vienne and have a ticket to Lyon Part Dieu. Unusually in my experience, Vienne is also served by trains to Lyon Perrache. In the UK an ordinary ticket would be good to either station, e.g. (to use a broadly comparable example), 'Birmingham Stations': New Street, Moor...

I thought FS ran a local service - maybe three trains a day - between Torino Porta Nuova and Modane, but I can't seem to find it in the online timetables at the moment.

I was using Trainline when it was still Capitaine (with the 'e') Train and found them excellent. They then dropped the 'e' prior to merging with Trainline (UK); and the latest thing is they have begun to charge a 3% booking fee - something I only spotted when I got to the end of booking a...

Although I found a couple of threads about the above, both are closed and some years out of date; so I'm wondering if anyone has more recent experience, specifically about E* check in for my return journey. I will be travelling from Boulogne, and there is a train from Boulogne that arrives at...

I booked Lyon to Lille in August this morning, so yes, they are (sometimes the Lille and other regional services aren't released until after the Paris-centred ones). My outbound journey is on the direct E* from Ashford, but it doesn't run on a Thursday when I come back, so I have a separate...

I have been using them since they were a French startup called Capitaine Train, and have never had any problems. But I was annoyed when I made a booking this morning to see they have started charging a service fee. And the new unified (UK and Europe) app is riddled with advertising.

Unfortunately, despite being fluent in French and having passable Italian, I cannot find anywhere on the respective sites that lets me check train times beyond the three month booking horizon. If you have a direct link it would be helpful, as I am trying to put the different legs of a trip in...

It may be too far in advance for anyone to know, but I have been using the DB site to check trains and connections for a trip in September, and see that according to them the Milan-Paris TGV is not running three out of four weekends that month - although it is running in the opposite direction...

Yes, maximum 4 litres of wine and 1 litre of spirits, just like any other non-EU country. End of the booze cruise.

Hallo all. I will shortly need to travel to Gatwick Airport from Elmstead Woods, leaving ESD at 0929 (bad train timing!) and changing at London Bridge. This means I have to leave ESD in the morning peak, but will be off-peak at LBG. Using my PAYG Oyster Card with Senior Railcard discount (which...