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Wouldn't the stock built for Brightline fit perfectly ?

There is a TEC bus every 30' to the main train station, Charleroi Sud. And from there, half hourly IC trains straight to Mechelen.

If you go to Leipzig, don't forget to pay a visit to my friend Jean Sébastien... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Church,_Leipzig

At least to Sofia with the daily Sofia-Thessaloniki and vv. Two greek coaches are attached to a Sofia-Kulata local train (electrically hauled) and then handed over to a greek diesel loco, which takes them to Strymon, where they wait for about one hour before a train from Alexandropoulis arrives...

Anyone going to use the specials from/to Luxemburg ?

This one is easy to do as there is a hourly served train connection at each end.

There is a second exit more or less half-train in Brussels too. Was closed during the security crisis but back open now.

Interrail was once also valid in Morocco. Don't know whether it still is.

JZ coaches also came to Belgium when we had a weekly, holiday season, train from Oostende to Split & vv.

Definitely. For my 1980 trip, our reserved places were in a OSE couchettes car. It was in such bad state that we abandoned those places for an unreserved compartment in a nearby DB car.

Replying to myself... Just had a quick look on Bahn.de and that train Craiova Sofia seems gone already. Replaced by two locals with change in Vidin. Looks like this track on the new bridge Calafat Vidin over the Danube river is traveled only by one train per day...

Munich to Athens direct in 2010 ? Don't think such long distance trains still existed at that date... But earlier, definitely : my first far away destination was Athens, in 1980. I catched the train to Athens in Cologne, I think it was coming from Dortmund or Dusseldorf. Total trip lasted two days.

Done that in 2015. 1st day Brussels-Basel-Zurich. Less easy now that the direct train is gone. 2nd day Zurîch-Vienna-budapest. Direct train, railjet. 3rd day Budapest-Craiova. Direct train. 4th day Craiova-Sofia. Direct train, over the new Danube bridge. 5th day Sofia-Thessaloniki 6th day...

Lines targetted by this plan go through parts of France that have a very low population density (it was not the case when the lines were built). Think like Northern Scandinavia or Iceland. The potential ridership is just not there. Some lines might be worth saving for their touristic or...

In Belgium you can get such reservations in any station open to international traffic. This summer I'll go to Zagreb and back on Interrail and will probably make all my reservations at the Brussels South international counter. Have already done that to go to Oslo, Athens, Istanbul...

Only a limited interior refresh. Nothing done to the structure nor the traction chain. The 7900s will probably go out of service before the remaining 7500s.

There is a new order for low floor trams in preparation. It becomes urgent to phase out the 7900 séries, which received no mid life refurbishment.

Central bas just been refurbished and is far from being a dump. North is following suit, let's see in a few week. South I party agree, but there are good reasons.

Not that much. 39 and 44 are your best bet, those two have no low floors at all. Also the most scenic. 81 also, only during the week.

Many ? Like, for exemple ? In Europe ?