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So last Sunday I find myself, with wife and another friend in tow, in the lovely little station of Orry la Ville, in the northern outskirts of Paris. The station is outside the limits of the Île de France region, and is served by Paris RER line D - organised by Île de France mobilités - and by...

Hello, I would like to share and get any advice you might have on this planned interrail trip to Germany week after next. Tuesday 05 yay : Bruxelles-midi 07:33 IC2107 Luxembourg 10:49 / 11:33 RE11 5117 Treis-Karden 13:26 / 13:35 RB81 12125 (apparently at this time the CFL train...

We, wife and I, are in Porto for a few days. Mostly walking but using the metro once or twice a day. Wife will also use the metro for her return to the airport (I won't because I'll return to Brussels by train). The metro uses a zonal fare system, you pre-load the tickets you need on a smartcard...

This saturday a special train ran to bid farewell to the NS ICR coaches, which are taken out of service. The train ran between two NS traxx locos. Amsterdam Utrecht Maastricht Liège Namur Schaerbeek Antwerp Rotterdam. In Schaerbeek the train was met by new SNCB HLE 1701 and the last surviving...

Hi there ! How far south did the north america rail network go ? I understand that railroads in USA and Mexico were (and still are, but without passenger trains today) connected, but after that ? Were there rail lines going further south ? And what is the situation today ? Any specialists of...

Wife and I plan to spend 2 weeks vacation in Northern Portugal end of September. As bonus, I consider doing the trip from Belgium to Porto by train. My experience with Spanish and Portuguese trains being minimal, I would appreciate any help I could get. Conditions of travel are the...

The new ”slow train” service between Brussels and Paris has been launched and reservations are available as of today. Apparently SNCB is just the operator of the service, which is sold under the SNCF OUIGO brand, with their usual conditions : - yield management, price varying from 10 to 59 Euros...

Hi All, I'm trying to organize for myself a trip to Italy and back, the goal being to see the Bernina, the Centovalli, and the old Gotthard lines, in the snow. I blocked Wednesday, January 22, to Saturday, January 25, in my agenda. The temptative schedule is as follows: Wed 22/01/25 Nivelles...

The latest issue of the US magazine ”trains” features an interesting story about a runaway train, in fact a set of two locos, that traveled without driver (or engineer, as they call them over there) for some 100 miles at more than 80 mph. They were finally stopped by derailing them voluntarily...

I just read an article in the last edition of the French railways magazine "rail passion", explaining that French railways are currently testing a new signaling system that will allow two trains to share the same track in stations, as a way to increase the capacity of heavily congested stations...

Hi all, going to New York for 10 days (2 days of travel included) next month, any recommendations ? Not a pure trainfan trip, wife is coming along, but she's open to a few rail experiences. We already know we will join a tour of Grand Central terminal. I certainly want to see Penn Station as...

I’m just back from a city trip to Madrid (not meant to be train-oriented) where we have used the train (cercanias) for a daily excursion to El Escorial. Noticed two "strange" things : From Madrid to nearly Pinar de Las Rosas we ran right-hand then just before the station the two tracks ran...

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Not so long ago à belgian magazine stated that the 15 I6Bc cars that SNCB sold to an Eastern European railway were again operational and used in revenue service. It didn't give any more details. Does anyone in the audience know anything about that ?

A tunnel collapsed on the Luxembourg northern line, between Kautenbach and Clervaux. This happened during à line possession and there are no casualties. https://lequotidien.lu/a-la-une/impressionnant-eboulement-dans-un-tunnel-ferroviaire-du-luxembourg/ Repairs are expected to take several...

https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2022/03/03/sanctions-or-not-these-companies-stop-transit-through-russia/?gdpr=deny 1) If businesses find an alternative, not sure they will come back once (if) the crisis is over... 2) Southern alternative is mentioned, but the capacité isn’t there...

This will be the new HLE 17 series. 1500V & 3000V =, 15 kV ~ 16,7Hz, 25 kV ~ 50 Hz. Ca. 6000 kW, 200 km/h. Fitted with ETCS 2 plus legacy signaling systems for Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Germany. 24 copies plus options for 26 more. Will be TRAXX P200 MS3. Question : does that loco...

https://twitter.com/jbenedictbrown/status/1329758480241201152 Looks like we will have soon the possibility to go to Helsinki without taking a boat...

Following www.seat61.com, there are now reports of rail travelers coming from western europe that were stopped by russian police at the belarus-russia border. So finally the RZD trains from Paris, Nice, and Berlin are not suitable for westerners to enter Russia anymore. I hope that will be...

Tourist questions being increasingly popular here apparently, here's mine : I'll be in Porto for a week during the second half of april. With my wife, not explicitely train-oriented, but we'll be flying there so probably no car at all - or just for one day or two - and therefore heavy reliance...