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Is there any reason why all of these services - day and night - are focussing on the East? Surely there's a market for Frankfurt/ Cologne and other points West to be connected to Scandinavia?

Your pass is still valid, by virtue of it having been valid for your intended day of travel. It might be worth mentioning/ explaining what happened to the guard, so they understand why you're travelling beyond the expiry date. You can still show yesterday's QR code. If you have onward...

Possibly, but not officially; you can't rely on it. Some people report success, others report being asked to pay an offline booking fee.

You're entitled to the same as a cash ticketholder - a percentage of the fare, based on your delay. The trouble is Eurostar don't always know how to process a compensation claim for passholder fares, based on a couple of reports I've heard. If you're willing to accept a voucher (at a higher...

Very confusing. As @rvdborgt says, there are questions pretty much every day about this. It's not even a sensible time to show. A train at 11:04 will show as departing at 10:29. That's not the time check-in closes (10:34), or the time Eurostar would recommend you arrive (usually 75-90 minutes...

My favourite bizarre timezone is Australian Central Western Time (UTC +8:45), which exists only in a couple of small towns (total pop. 63, apparently) near the Western Australia/ South Australia border. Entirely unofficial, but widely-observed, and it allows residents to do business with both...

I imagine the income from selling reservations dwarfs the income they receive from a share of pass revenue, so that's possibly why they're not too focussed on checking passes. I also think the pass revenue calculation is more complex than a simple count of activated journeys. I often, but not...

I got a very light breakfast (coffee & biscuit) in a couchette on the way to Sicily, so you would get at least that in a sleeper. Probably best to verify with the attendant what time it will be served, as I assumed I wasn't getting anything until it suddenly appeared at about 11 am...

Is this for summer or winter? If it's summer, you might take a look at the European Sleeper Milan-Brussels service, which will call somewhere in Switzerland. Bern, I think. The timetable's not finalised yet. You also have the Travelski Express (winter only), from Bourg-St-Maurice, which you...

It wouldn’t hurt to contact customer services. Anecdotally, they tend to be more helpful than you might expect. Frame it as ‘my holiday was over, and I didn’t get to use all my travel days because of disruption’ and they might offer to extend the validity or something. I don’t they’d offer a...

You won't get far with compensation for missed work or other commitments - that would be consequential loss. Just to be clear about your partner's train tickets. Your partner was already in London, intending to go to St Pancras in the evening, but you were still at home? (Where is that?) And...

The dining car they carried on Brussels-Innsbruck last year had a few compartments at one end of the carriage IIRC. They were set up for dining. (It was either that or the next coach) Maybe that’s what they plan to do, which would give them flexibility to sell as seats or use for dining...

The UK sort of does exit checks, but it’s not performed by UKBF; it’s performed by airline staff (or other contractors at St Pancras) and relayed to the Home Office. The government knows who has exited, up to a point

Bahn.com should be able to find this - you can deselect high speed and intercity trains in the options. You can certainly get as far as St Quentin or Amiens (changing at Rennes, Laval, Le Mans and crossing Paris), but with a late arrival. I think it will be hard to avoid Paris

Interrail is odd, because on the one hand it ignores the UK and considers GB as one territory and Ireland (North & South) as another. But on the other hand when you select your country of residence, there is no option for 'GB', only UK. Do NI residents need to choose Ireland as their CoR in...

Interrail themselves don't seem to publish the exact criteria for who qualifies for a free Cargiver's Pass - but they say that it is 'if you need to be accompanied'. Myinterrail, on the other hand, seem(ed) to offer one to anyone holding a Disabled Person's Railcard (which could include people...

It's not just €5 though. You've already paid the first class premium when you bought your pass. The extra €5 for your reservation is just (even more) greed from Eurostar. Like how they charge higher refund/ cancellation fees in Plus (why? The cancellation isn't any more 'premium' than a...

That is definitely misleading.

There are nearly as many non-EU Interrail countries as there are EU member states

That's wrong. Interrail is for European* residents - nothing to do with EU or non-EU. If there's somewhere on the Interrail or Eurail website which states otherwise (which wouldn't surprise me - there's a lot of duff information on there!) please point it out to them so they can correct it. *...