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Lack of earlier 'outside the box' thinking for LGV Est means that a Metz - Strasbourg service can not take advantage of the LGV Est, as neither of the junctions south of Metz allows a North to East TGV

OK problem solved! I see it's a SNCF class 18. I'm fairly certain that these meet the criteria required to reach Basel SNCF

I took my information from SBB, not OBB. SBB is quite clear, if you choose a date between 18 and 23 November the 'engineering work' message comes up but with the loose "times may be changed", if you choose 26 November as a travel date, no such warning appears. I'm fairly certain that the EC163...

I can confirm that Interrail was originally intended as a one-off promotion. The 1972 start date is the clue. It was launched to celebrate 50 years of the UIC (founded 17 October 1922). I never returned my booklets because (a) what you got for them was a pittance even back then and (b) they...

Perhaps there would be a market for a 'Ouigo Classic' loco hauled train via the old route (a reinvention of the EC Iris) but probably a non starter as it would need Belgian and SNCF locos I suppose. Basel end would not be a problem as Basel SNCF is wholly 'SNCF' territory

I've received some pix and info from my nephew which I will work on later today. In the meantime, a couple of basics: Loco was 1461 (displaying its provenance with 'DSB' on the axle box!) On my nephew's trip - only two coaches were used, one reserved for Hurtigruten ship pax, one for...

It's only 18 - 23 November (5 days)

This is a typical example of 'high speed routes at all costs' strategy which SNCF - in particular - favours. The timings are given as 'about 0700' from Brussels and '12.30' arrival into Basel. Despite being LGV high speed lines, the route is of course circuitous, so the journey time will be no...

My nephew rode the train the other day. It was hauled by the Nordic Refinance MZ and the stock was the set of ex-DB coaches. They are marked Bpmz and ownership is D-TMAS. He is still in Norway (on a mainly normals holiday) but I'll ask him if he got the loco number or a close up picture.

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Indeed 39 / 44 has always been the 'dumping ground' for the oldest trams in Brussels! I griced it on a day trip to Brussels years ago because at that time it was the last route using single car PCCs!

One of the (merger Inter rail - Eurail) was only started on Friday!

Question is all in the title. I only look at this forum around once a week.

You can say that again. If I click on it in the pub whilst discussing our next Swiss trip with my mate, if gives me the next available Thameslink train into London, and all the southern trains heading in other directions!

Can someone kindly direct me to an up to date summary of what is left loco hauled in south west Germany please. (if there is one!) Many thanks

I'm late to this discussion as I have been on a circuit Soton - Norway - Iceland - NYC - LHR over the last 3 weeks. However as an expert of 60+ years on Geneva (my family lived and worked in the area) I can sum up: 1) Swiss railway system has not had 'return' ticket of any kind in the modern...

The so called 'Golden Pass route' was a creation of the 1980s when the number of tourist groups coming to Switzerland from outside Europe grew immensely. As most groups wanted to 'do' the 'big three' tourists areas - Luzern, the Interlaken / Jungfrau area and the Lake Geneva area, a 'through...

Happy with all that thanks for your kind words. By the way I have travelled in Norway several times and love the country.

You are correct - no service exists. The hovercraft is a proposal. In advance of my 2019 trip I must say I was somewhat surprised that there was no ferry route as it seems a rather obvious link for summer tourism, but I guess ferries on the Great Lakes went the way of everything else in the...

One or two comments on what has been said so far: 1) gutter running can of course occur 'by default' if the double track tramway runs along a 'two-way' road narrow enough. One example is on route 68 in Marseille which was one of the three French original tramways that survived the...