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!
Our guide to travelling with kids on European trains includes five great tips from leading family travel writer Imogen Hall AND all the practical info you'll need about booking tickets and finding the best deals for your family!
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.
Our guide to using Eurail or InterRail to explore Europe by train is packed with info, tips, itineraries and insights - gained from our experiences of using rail passes to travel more than 30,000 kilometers around Europe by train.
How to travel to 24 ski resorts in Switzerland by train from Basel, Geneva and Zurich. Our guides include how to make the transfers by train to the ski resorts from the airports and international train arrivals. Plus there's info on how to buy the optimum journey tickets.
We're big fans of lists of fabulous train journeys, so had to produce our own, but our list of Europe's greatest journeys by train is different. We've restricted it to the most epic journeys we have taken by direct, express trains between major European cities. So these are journeys that you're likely to take when exploring Europe.
Exploring Italy by train is the best way to make the most of a beautiful country, but Italian trains and the terms of using tickets and rail passes to travel by them, are varied, Hence our guide to making travelling by Italian trains less complicated than it can first seem - it will save you time, money and confusion.
Our guide to taking a train from a major station in Italy explains all you need to know, from what to be aware of when buying tickets at a station, to how to use the departure information to make your way to the train - plus insights into the facilities you can expect to find at the station etc.
Germany can boast some of the best trains in Europe including six different types of high speed ICE trains, so our guide explains which trains operate on each express train route, both within and to/from Germany; what you can expect on board - and what to look out for when planning journeys.