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I was standing on the platform at ‘s-Hertogenbosch yesterday when a Eurostar Red TGV passed through non stop on the centre road heading to Paris according to the door indicators and with passengers on board. I didn’t know they sometimes came through on this route. Does anybody know all the...

Hi. Just one small question. I'm booking the Intercity from Milan to Ventimiglia for September and I want to try and be sat on the coastal side from Genoa onwards, though I know there are a lot of tunnels these days. I believe the train reverses at some point, possibly twice. Has anyone done...

I hear that DB will be running an ICE 3 service to Ghent, Bruges and Ostend in July and August. https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/additional-ice-service-on-the-cologne-brussels-route/ Does anyone have more details on the service?

Hi. I've tried the search function but nothing comes up. Does anyone know where I can find TER zonal maps for each region and details about the cost of a pass for each region? I've tried going on the SNCF website and it talks about TER but when you click on a region, no map comes up and a box...

I probably missed it in the news at the time, but can one of our Dutch correspondents please enlighten me as to why the NS changed the destination boards from a white background to a blue background? Google doesn’t throw up any answers. I suspect it’s to do with some disability ruling, but it...

Now that the ICNG has totally displaced the NS Intercity loco hauled services, I wondered if any of our Dutch correspondents knew where the coaching stock was stored, and what happened to the locos? Were the locos leased and can any other work be found for them with other operators, depending...

Just looking for some advice. I am heading to Sicily with a friend later this month to do the train ferry via the Rome To Siracusa night train, and then stay one night in Siracusa. We will then be heading back along the coast in a regional train to Messina and onto Villa San Giovanni to pick up...

Back in the eighties, I used to be a seasonal coach driver for NAT Holidays Leeds, not to be confused with National Holidays. NAT Holidays used to run coach shuttles to holiday resorts in France, Italy and Spain before the low cost airlines killed off that part of the coach market. I think in...

I am trying to book this train for September but every date for the whole month seems to show 'The booking is temporarily unavailable for this date' on the TrenItalia website. In both directions. Do any of our Italian correspondents happen to know what may be going on? I can book from Rome to...

Sorry for another question in the space of a few days. Just seen a SNCB loco hauled train (i11?) on the HSL Zuid between Rotterdam and Breda. Is this a new service or is it more testing going on for something? I haven’t kept up with changes. If it’s a new service, does it run in addition to...

In the early hours of this morning, I was in my artic truck taking a trailer load of white goods to a distribution centre in Zwolle. As you come into the city, the road passes over a railway stabling point and I normally look down to see what’s in the depot. This morning, there was a mystery...

A video from the Man Alive series from back in the day popped up on my youtube feed recently about what happened to the Great Train Robbers. I have always been curious about the schedule of the mail train and the diagrams for the crew but have never found anything online. How far did the...

Does anyone know if NS has ended the advance tickets with discount scheme? I don’t see the option on the app. Thanks

I drive an articulated truck in Holland and Belgium and one of my regular runs is to Antwerp docks. The distribution centre is next to a container rail yard so it is always interesting watching the cranes in operation. However, on the other side is a hump shunting yard. In today’s health and...

Sorry, this is one of those random questions that come to me at night sometimes. When English Electric first built the engine for the class 40, did they know it was going to whistle? Or did they hear it and say ‘Bloody hell, it sounds like a kettle on the boil but we’ll keep it that way and...

I guess this is more directed at the older members on this forum. Are there any sounds from the railway of the past that you don’t hear much these days if at all, that remind you of journeys from your childhood or younger travelling days? For me, it is childhood holidays travelling from London...

I recently watched the 2017 remake of Murder on the Orient Express (much prefer the 1974 version) on tv. I don’t know how long the train was supposed to be stuck in the snow drift, but the train interior lights were fully on for the entire time. It got me to thinking, how were the lights...

Hello. I don't know if anybody can possibly help. I booked two couchettes on the night train1963/1965 from Milan to Palermo for next month. We've been allocated berths 63 and 71 in a supposedly four berth compartment. Does anybody know if they are indeed in the same compartment or where I could...

This trip report is a follow up to my Chicago advice thread in the international section, and is about my 53 hours spent in Chicago, riding the Metra surburban trains and the CTA subway and buses during my visit while my flight attendant wife attended a course for her airline in the Willis...

I see in the Dutch media, that Corendon, a Turkish holiday company, wants to run their own exclusive trains between Schipol and Brussels airport, and later to Dusseldorf airport to help their package holiday customers connect between various flights of theirs. They have their own airline. If it...