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I have just booked a return trip to Brussels with Eurostar for mid-August and note the travel times in both directions are longer than usual - just over two and a half hours each way. I presume engineering works are responsible and trains are being diverted away from the high speed line. Does...

A friend of mine who lived and worked for several years in Geneva was returning from Lyon on one occasion, and fell asleep on the train, unaware that it split at Bellegarde and he was in the wrong part. He woke up in Evian on the other side of the lake and, it being the last train of the day...

Oops - my mistake. 3" x 5" lol. Typo acknowledged and corrected.

I may have missed this development, but unusually today I bought tickets from the ticket office (Wolverhampton) rather than online, and was given two thin paper tickets roughly 3". x 5", one for each leg of my return journey, rather than the credit-card sized cardboard tickets I was expecting...

For if the station is seen as cathedral or chapel, it can also be seen to possess in its heyday a Bible every bit as imposing and sometimes even as impenetrable as the Authorised Version (Bradshaw), incense (steam), and liturgical chanting ('The train now standing at platform 3 is ...', 'Close...

Another vote for Utrecht. I spend a month there for work a few years ago. Canals, several excellent museums (including the Dutch National Railway Museum), and small enough to be easily walkable. Utrecht Centraal is the hub of the Dutch railway network with easy connections to everywhere else. A...

Bergamo and its Città Alta are well worth a visit, as is Verona. Turin is a favourite of mine; I've been there half-a-dozen times, but there is really too much to do in a single day. Depending on your interests there are the various Savoy palaces, the Egyptian Museum (second biggest in the...

Didn't look two months away from opening to me ...

I have just taken the bus from Milan Malpensa airport and noticed what seemed to be extensive works around the station at terminal 2 and beside the approach roads, and was wondering what they might be. They looked to me as if they might be a new rail alignment. Does anyone have any insights?

Some years ago I was visiting Trieste, and took the train the short distance to the Castello Miramare. As we arrived I heard the announcement that doors in the last coach where I was sitting would not open due to a short platform. I rushed forward to get into the next coach but could not for...

Mulhouse, of course, has the Cité du Train, the French National Rail museum, and an equally interesting automotive museum. But it would involve a bit of a detour.

There is a railway section at the Museum of Science and Technology https://www.museoscienza.org/en, which is well worth a visit as a whole. For non-railway interests the museums at the Castello Sforzesco are also interesting. The last time I actually stayed in Milan it was at the Hotel Columbia...

Again, go with SNCF connect. I have even used it to book through tickets from London to destinations in France - generally easier than doing the same in the E* app, although if you like the E* app you can simply add the booking number and your ticket will show up there as well. My only problem...

The email I receive implied it was sent out 72 hours before travel.

All of that I saw when I gave my information - although in fact I already had my tickets. I am simply wondering when it started and what practical difference it will make.

I am curious. I am travelling to Paris on Friday and have been asked to provide Advance Passenger Information. This was not required when I last used E* in August. I presume this has to do with the UK's new entry requirements but am wondering when it in fact started - and whether it will improve...

We spent our holidays in Dieppe for several years when our children were younger, and took the Newhaven ferry. Unfortunately Dieppe without a car suffers from being stuck at the end of a branch line from Rouen, which makes getting anywhere else a pain. Boulogne is better connected. I had hoped...

I have recently returned from a break in Boulogne. I live in the London Borough of Bromley. Four years ago when I did the trip I drove to Ebbsfleet, took Eurostar to Calais-Fréthun, and was at my destination in just over two hours with a single change and barely more than the cost of E*. This...

I spent three weeks in Utrecht last February (work-related). It is a charming city. I did climb the Dom tower (no lifts as pointed out) and the view is worth it even though it was shrouded in scaffolding while I was there, but at 60+ I was huffing and puffing rather a lot when I got to the top...