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With 3 Pass days left after my trip to the Dolomites and Austria I was tempted to travel again. Even without heatwaves it needed to be Northern Europe, and North Germany was the obvious choice for me. I wanted to check out the Deutschlandticket, which includes all regional public transport...

I am/was hoping to travel this scenic route in late September. It has been closed since the severe floods early this year and I recall at the time suggestions that the line would be closed till September. Has anyone any info about its reopening, or a link to a specialist group that might help...

I bought a couple of 10-day 1st class Interrails in the Black Friday sale, knowing I should be able to use them sometime this year and catch up on some travels. My daughter had a week's leave which she planned to use for an Alpine walking holiday and suggested I come too. We agreed on the...

I bought a couple of 10-day 1st class Interrails in the Black Friday sale, knowing I should be able to use them sometime this year and catch up on some travels. My daughter had a week's leave which she planned to use for an Alpine walking holiday and suggested I come too. We agreed on the...

For the first time in a few years I took myself off last month for a short train-riding break, based in Fort William and Inverness and using a 4-in-8 Highland Rover ticket. I wanted to cover the routes for the first time in many years (40+ for the Far North), to check out the 153 bike carrier...

The sun has got its hat on, my daily schedule now allows a full day out, and I'd not caught up with changes on the Transpennine routes so on Tuesday 24/2 I caught the electric 662 bus to Bradford Interchange, bought me a SPDR and hopped aboard the 1031 to Manchester Vic (a reasonably loaded and...

ZSSK have posted today about an upgrade to their internal sleeper services. The pictures imply they will be using the ex-CML/NJ double-deck stock which have been in SK for several years. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HC7RQTKgq/ The text also refers to a rejig of the supplements. No prizes...

I've not been travelling much by rail this year, so a solo day trip to West Wickham to see family, on a day when LNER had withdrawn the Dine menu, gave me the opportunity to use the MML for the first time in some years one way and check out the breakfast on XC and EM. Ticketing: obviously a...

Hi all. Can I interchange EL to TL northbound at Farringdon without passing through gates? I saw a lift on the southbound TL platform earlier, but I don't think there's one to the northbound? I presume I just go to the southbound and use the footbridge? TIA.

(This is actually about a French viaduct but I think this forum is the best place for it). Does anyone happen to know the English term for the pizza-slice shaped voids between the arches in the attached photo of Morez viaduct? They serve to lighten the structure - in French they are...

A long shot, this: having just read an article about the station at Canfranc, I wondered about rerouting a trip to Spain via the Bedous-Canfranc bus and on to Huesca in early June. The line on the Spanish side is shown as closed (for dual-gauging work etc) until the end of the current Renfe...

A trip to the SW to check out the Castle HSTs, take a look at the Cornwall main line with its surviving GW signalling, and sample Pullman dining had been in the back of my mind for some years, during which time Okehampton had reopened (last visited in 1971). Then the news of the drastic...

Good evening all. I shall be in Bath at the end of February, and am contemplating a trip to Lostwithiel/Par before the boxes close. As there are no trains between St Austell and St Erth that week, and a revised service west of Plymouth, what are my chances of getting a Castle? My suspicion is...

Spun-off from my recent Nice and Back Trip Report: 1. The TER networks (and local bus services) I observed have been transformed in the last few years, but the PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur) network seems to be a victim of its own success, with trains along the Grasse-Ventimiglia route...

From my Nice trip report - I think it belongs here, so it doesn't get lost. The Region has introduced a number of one-day passes which can be bought at the ordinary SNCF TER machines. However, there is also a seasonal* 3/7/14-day Pass Explore valid on all local public transport in...

We'd never visited the area properly (work meant that main holidays were in high summer) so it was high time for an early autumn break. All neatly planned - two nights in Turin on the way out, then over the Col de Tende route to Nice, and return via Dijon (which we'd not visited when we were...

I was surprised recently to discover that the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway uses a third-party ticketing site that adds a booking fee per ticket if you book in advance. Are there other heritage railways that do this? Thanks in advance. Note - I am not asking for anyone's views on booking...

Does anyone know if you can select your seat when using a TVM in France. Specifically this is to buy Interrail reservations - you can't select your seats online via b-europe/Interrail JP :( Thanks in advance.

En-route to Münster today and Schleswig tomorrow despite DB digging at Aachen. An interesting day, starting on the 0850 Shipley-KGX, which entertained us by running on the Down Fast for a while after Huntington, picking up a few minutes' delay in the process. In view of comments on the last ES...

This is the "and back" bit. We were tight for time, so settled for 24h in Genoa plus overnight sleeps in Civitavecchia and Chambery. Genoa is a fascinating city, with excellent public transport including a rack line (which we didn't ride as the timetable had been changed and didn't fit)...