This guide shows which company provides the train services on each of the most popular tourist routes in England, Scotland and Wales. You can check whether you can save with discounted Advance tickets, PLUS what key facilities will be available on board from seat reservations to food/drink.
If you want to explore Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, south-east Europe, Spain, The Czech Republic, The Netherlands or Wales by train, then these rail passes and special tickets can be a great way to go where you want, while saving money too!
Featuring pan-European general tips and advice for travelling with bicycles on trains in Europe. PLUS specific guides to taking bikes on trains in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands - including bike ticket booking links and step-by-step guides
Buried within the timetables are these twenty long distance European day trains which only depart once per day. Not only do they provide highly useful direct connections, most of them also take highly scenic routes!
EuroCity express trains are the closest contemporary echoes of a more glamorous, but more limited and elitist, age of European international rail travel. That's because EuroCity trains still weave through multiple countries, conveying their restaurant cars on long and often beautiful railway journeys.
Planning where to go with a Eurail or Interrail pass is fun, but time consuming. You can now that save time as we've put together these five ready-made and fabulous rail pass itineraries for you to follow.
Help with planning your journey to and from the stations in Paris by Metro, the RER and by bus. Our guide will also show you which of the seven stations in the city your train will be departing from - PLUS there's some day trips from Paris by train ideas.
Our guide to taking trains from London to Europe includes summaries of how to travel by train from Europe's largest city to Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. They're packed with insights into how make these train journeys as easily as possible.
Having travelled more than 30,000 km around Europe by train in the past 18 months, we have some useful advice to pass on, which will help maximise the pleasure of taking European trains - and avoid the pitfalls which we've encountered!
A highly detailed guide to the often wonderful, but occasionally quirky mode of transport that is the European overnight train, A journey by them is usually a very different experience to being on a daytime train, so we take you through what to look out for - both when booking your accommodation and when you're on board.
