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There has been a major derailment of a fully-laden iron ore train from Kiruna, Sweden in Narvik, Norway. There are at least 100 tonnes of iron ore in every wagon. NRK reports in Norwegian. My translation: Aftonbladet reports in Swedish. My translation: As a result, the Stockholm-Narvik...

Hi everyone. Over the next 10 days, Friday 17th to Sunday 26th February, I'm travelling by train from Umeå in northern Sweden to Athens. I used to do long train trip threads on Twitter, but left the platform because of the rapid and dramatic deterioration of content moderation. So you can find...

I’m looking at train #1095 from Buçuresti-N (10.55) to Sofia (20.18) in a couple of weeks time. There is some discrepancy between this season’s printed ERT and the Interrail Rail Planner app (which both say reservation compulsory) and the Interrail website, which says reservation not...

Yesterday's Dagens Nyheter (DN, a left-leaning middle-market newspaper in Sweden, similar to the Guardian) reported that SJ AB (i.e. the limited company formed out of the monopoly SJ) is planning a new, daytime international train that would run daily Oslo–Gothenburg–Malmö–Copenhagen–Hamburg. A...

Hi all. No longer a UK resident, so using an Interrail ticket for some GB travels this month. Can you tell me if the pass is valid on the Elizabeth Line, specifically on a trip from Heathrow into east London? Many thanks!

According to a photograph posted on the YouTube channel of the Danish videographer Kenny’s Film, last night Danish state railways DSB received the first 7 of 56 DB IC1 carriages which will replace IC3 DMU trains on the Copenhagen-Hamburg (and probably also but not Aarhus-Hamburg) lines from...

Hello everyone. Got to go to London next week, arriving LHR-T2 in the evening and then going to a meeting near Liverpool Street in the morning. I haven't used the Elizabeth Line yet, so I wondered it this was a chance to do so. Since hotels in central/east London are more expensive, can anyone...

In late February I will undertake my most ambitious train trip yet, from Umeå in northern Sweden to Marrakesh.* * Well, Athens actually. Then a cheap flight to Marrakesh. I'll travel using a 2-month consecutive Interrail pass picked up during the 50th anniversary sale. Therefore I have a...

Hello everyone. I remember finding a PDF or web page with ÖBB that provided a crystal clear overview of the different accommodation tariffs for Nightjet trips. Does such a thing still exist? I'm planning a group trip with a bunch of students holding Interrail tickets, so I just want to know...

Last month the right-wing bloc in Sweden's Riksdag (parliament) won the majority of seats needed to form a government. This includes the Moderates (M), Christian Democrats (KD), Sweden Democrats (SD) and Liberals (L). Per the Swedish railway news site Järnvägar.nu, representatives of these four...

Click here for a livestream of the launch of the first completed rake of new NightJet carriages, starting at 10.00CET (09.00BST) Tuesday 6th September 2022: https://presse.oebb.at/nightjet-neue-generation

According to some informed interpretations of a press call for next Monday, Deutsche Bahn is going to join the Star Alliance. Founded in 1997 by United Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Thai, Air Canada, and Lufthansa, the alliance now has 26 members and more than 1,200 destinations. It's still...

DSB has announced the return of the summertime-only rejsepass (travel pass). DKK399 (about £45 or €54) per adult or DKK199 per child, but each adult can bring two children under the age of 12 for free. The pass gives you 8 consecutive days travel on all* buses and trains throughout Denmark...

Between 14 and 20 June I'm taking ± 15 architecture students on a tour of the buildings of Alvar and Aino Aalto. We'll use 4-day 1-country Interrail passes on a variety of long distance VR trains. Are seat reservations necessary / recommended / required? I've tried coralling even small groups...

Reported in a couple of places, including IRJ, that VR Group of Finland have agreed to buy Arriva's Swedish subsidiary from Arriva Group, itself a subsidiary of DB. The sum paid is not disclosed. From that IRJ article: This means that in the Nordic region, Norwegian-state-owned Vy Gruppen...

Finnish national broadcaster YLE has reported (in Finnish - use Google Chrome to translate) that hundreds of freight wagons have been stopped at a number of locations across Finland.

A post on Facebook shows a collision between two rakes of international coaching stock, reportedly in the Hamburg area last night (26/1/2022). URL: https://www.facebook.com/EuroCityCardSlovenia/posts/7095129013860759 The post suggests that the carriages involved belong to SBB, having worked...

Hi everyone. Flying into Heathrow on Monday, arrival around 13.00. Departing eight days later at 19.00. Planning to take the tube into London and then train + bus to Swaffham, Norfolk. "Swaffham (Coach)" is on the former 'X1' Excel bus route Peterborough - Wisbech - King's Lynn - Norwich...

For some time now, we’ve been working on a plan to visit Mongolia in October 2022, travelling out by train and returning by air. (We are located in Sweden, so our most logical route would be Umeå - Vaasa - Helsinki - St Petersburg - [one or two stops along the way] - Ulan Bator). Russia and...

Just re-watched Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy (2011) Tomas Alfredson’s imperfect but still masterful adaptation of the John Le Carré novel. At around 38:00 into the film, there is a composite outside shot of the hotel in which George Smiley is working. Thanks to the British Railway Movie Database...