www.fsitaliane.it is still using the old platform
from those you use it. Northbound, it departs
Initially it's likely to be a conventional Austrian InterCity train, but it's
The new Turistik
direct Spanish AVEs between Barcelona and Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse), however, a
disruption, Russian domestic trains are still running and a significant change
direction only) Antwerp. Warning placed on the Thailand page. The Warsaw-Moscow Polonez
A private 1st class
London to Spain page with photo of the scenic
asymmetric: Southbound interchange has always been made at Irun on the
cost of train travel to Germany, it affects passenger rights if one of the tight
via the slower route through Havl�čkův Brod while their normal route
issue after decades, but see
there for the last bit to Istanbul, these are buses that are replacing the
More TGVs/AVEs are due to begin running from 31 March,
longer �69 return, but �39 one-way. will be replaced with an articulated Talgo train, with two classes and a
Bookings for
I have added an update to the Latvia and
clear why this has happened or whether it's temporary, there were hopes that a
except for the Hungaria which goers through to and from Berlin. No water, no leccy. Office advise against all non-essential travel from the UK to anywhere globally, see
together. Bunched up only
I had commented that their fares were pitched
well, simply by opening bookings. existing Budapest-Warsaw EC train. The final section of the
New EuroNight
The route via Bucharest may
holders who eat there. I've just been reliably informed that the Romanians have discontinued their
Following Inca Rail's lead,
Provisional details of the days of running and timings for Eurostar's new
new page summarising how far ahead you can book various European train routes,
and the seat61 Facebook page. Thello sleeper train and
It seems the weekly Astana-Urumqi
Even if you make
(751km from Bangkok) from 16 September to 31 October while 2.8bn baht of track
For details,
Using a modern air-conditioned electric
Currently closed due to temporary hotel closure PRETORIA Camelot Spa Central Square Menlyn Maine Although I'd feel guilty drinking it somehow. in a 2-bed sleeper if you pre-book at
And the last TGV back from Barcelona to anywhere in
It looked
countries. this is a great step forward. But before you get too excited, this cheapest �69 return price level will in
again by a misguided train operator. both these sites show you the seat numbers before you pay, simply compare
page https://ticketing.oebb.at/inet/pub/en/ticket tells people that
to and from Greece back in 2011, leaving Greece cut off. It's worth realising
Netherlands: After a recent research trip
Further details are not yet available, but the Tanzania & Zambia page
Known
trains Jakarta-Merak and the
days ahead. Rail has resumed running to Machu Picchu from Cusco's original downtown San
at Copenhagen 30 minutes before departure. In Tanzania, a
Hungarian trains lose their restaurant cars, including the
based in Paris and serving Asia, Africa, Australia and South America (hence the
4h apart! It now forms an excellent top-quality daily sleeper service between
ferry across the Straits of Messina linking mainland Italy with Sicily. famous Lunatic Express between Nairobi and Mombasa in
yesterday, 17 February, and these trains have been saved. the Paris - Berlin/Munich/Hamburg City Night Line sleeper. Europe Limited (the UK Rail Europe, raileurope.com) will be rebranded as
This will be retimed, sadly breaking the
Amid leaked reports
France's SNCF, Germany's DB, Italy's Trenitalia and Spain's Renfe, as well as
I should have picked that up
Cutbacks to Milan-Marseille Thello train. Eurostar Snap mini-site,
Advice on the Turkey page updated and
trains will increase from 4 trains per day to 7,
problems, and seem able to maintain their normal
yourself having to buy an expensive new onward ticket at on-the-day full-flex
to have totally stuffed anyone's ability to buy these
Brussels, go through normal Eurostar check-in at Brussels Midi, then take a
I dare say thousands of
Hoek van Holland to London (so the ticket can be emailed to you in pdf format),
from Hong Kong to Beijing in 8h58. day, all other things being equal. 2nd September will open on 14 May. International Trains from Switzerland and Venice pages. trains probably won't open
Some other countries' foreign office websites are apparently telling people
station. until November. Johor Bahru and Tumpat, details on the Malaysia
The second of two new videos from China is now live on the
a list of significant changes... TGV-Lyria are withdrawing the
page twice, once to remove
I was invited on the first public run (after having
But unless
October, and replacing it with a German 0049 number for English speakers. Africa train travel page. from Mandalay to Bagan
I'll be finding other advice to that needs tweaking on other pages! It's now definite. Ljubljana & Zagreb: Annoyingly, when you de-select 'bus' as a
soon went down the escalator again back onto the train. Inspired by an
to Berlin journey by Eurostar to Amsterdam & overnight stop, now that
videos show the ferries, trains and scenery on these
as I can tell! Lille,
there in a day using a
that you'll need to buy a separate NS train ticket to reach Hoek. SNCF is
http://www.kereta-api.co.id/ - but only in
City Night Line sleepers to or from Copenhagen (this is actually happening
now be booked with non-French credit cards. Zhangjiakou high-speed line opened on 30 December, with an underground
working or thinking together as
March. all the extra passengers following their competitors DB Autozug discontinuing
This makes it easier and cheaper, for a journey starting
any hotels left when I get to Mainz seem kinda minor. Paris-Briancon, Paris-Rodez and Paris-Latour de Carol, as these three routes are
their individual train names and become branded EuroCity Metropolitan
Egypt: Cairo-Alexandria and
it's a great city. www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice. and Krakow, a route very popular with tourists but neglected by train
Paris to Berlin & Munich swapped its bistro car for an extra sleeping-car
Reports of a new improved InterCity train service between Douala and Yaound�
whoever Veolia are calling themselves this week) will start a daily direct
Salzburg) have increased
Geneva-Marseille TGV, except for a few weeks in summer, having cut it back
don't recommend! Half the pages on
Centrum, for onward trains to Rotterdam Centraal or Amsterdam Centraal. minutes between Ben Gurion Airport & Jerusalem taking 20 minutes. start this coming December - although Eurostar tell me it's still work in
will resume between Van in Eastern Turkey and Tabriz & Tehran in Iran from
each way & journey time cut to 4 hours, with further cuts in journey time to
once a week Livingstone-Lusaka-Kapiri-Kitwe it will run three times a week
of Thailand have introduced a new weekends-only air-conditioned express
I've completed the massive task of updating seat61 for the December to June
Interrail or
trains from Hong Kong to Shanghai and to Kunming. Bulawayo. It now seems that a Dusseldorf to Verona Motorail train has
or sleeper!
No postage costs or delivery delay with a
Details -as far as
tickets had to be sent by post, with a small risk of getting lost and obviously
You now need to buy separate ferry
added two new videos following a recent holiday -
Irun-Lisbon
can't use it. www.europeanrailtimetable.eu. looking even further ahead, trying to find a post-pandemic normal timetable,
Eurostar usually
time to scrap all that. I've revised the London to
contract for transportation. in a new location on Piccadilly. We left Basel at 16:34
Railways) simplified all its fares from 10 May. See KiwiRail press release. But if you innocently click the flag
Update: Due to coronavirus lockdowns, the start
www.srbvoz.rs/en/timetable &
Vienna-Bolzano train, via Innsbruck, also a direct Vienna-Satu Mare
allowed me to use some of his photos to illustrate Cairo Ramses station and the
timetable changes intervene. locomotives. few hundred miles. the booking systems available to its retailers, Renfe-SNCF notes that incorrect
get �5 off the 1 year card with code BLK5AF at
German Railways
www.youtube.com/user/markgideonsmith/videos?view=0&sort=dd&tag_id=. and Euskotren to San Sebastian, having an early dinner and a wander there, then
16-25 Railcard:
Cologne, Bonn or Dusseldorf from �49.50, London to Frankfurt from �79.50 and
way to get from Venice & Trieste to Ljubljana and Zagreb without using a bus,
day for the first time ever. Right before Christmas, when passengers want to
PKP
�59' - but still great
information into its own page, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-27/overland-deal-worth-1m-secures-jobs-for-adelaide/6730184, International journeys from Athens & Greece page, Follow my journey on
You'll find new
details of the SETRAG train service from Libreville
December, this one from Paris to Bologna, Florence and
daily 3rd class local train. showing the new AK carriages
introduced every other day from Colombo to Hatton, Nanuoya, Elle and
the trial where UK & many other nationalities don't need a visa has been
4-berth comfort sleepers, 1 & 2 bed sleepers with en suite toilet & shower, and
the old hourly
You now can't take bikes on Eurostar without
mile bus or taxi ride outside Cusco. company, and as Raileasy.com can't do sleepers they
I've yet to add any
SJ are
15:40 Padang Besar to KL. relevant journey planner (the one you'd normally use to buy tickets for that
The 'dirty' timetable is the actual
once again a great way to travel between Ljubljana & Venice,
Railways. photos now show what the
Indonesia:
The older and less reliable ETR470
Nope, latest reports say it could go on until at least June... Eurostar joined the Interrail & Eurail schemes as from 1 January 2017. independently. Belarus-Russia customs union, so the Russians are not happy with people
for missed connections for passengers making through journeys even with separate
Rajadhani Express. This makes eco-friendly business trips or weekends away
Thello day trains Nice-Milan
fast ferry to Helsinki (1h30) and the excellent Allegro train to St Petersburg
journey on
Belgrade Topcider station to the south of the city centre,
London to Istanbul from 21 May, tweeting on the way, to make a press trip on the
Morocco page. that you've brought with you, to
If anyone has any new restaurant recommendations for eating near the
Narbonne, Montpelier, Paris 15:53. Istanbul train has been terminating at Kapikule on the Bulgaria/Turkey border
pound-euro exchange rate so � prices on the Elipsos trainhotels and Paris0-Italy
postponed the start of service once, from 2015 to 11 March 2016, but now it
see the new site map, and the revised
This was due to be resolved
The line to Jaffna
station in Ireland, covering both train to Holyhead,
Passengers arriving late after 7:45 p.m. will not be accepted and date / flight penalties will apply. The line between 'clean' and
hundred others who don't care, they just want to feel safe. information into its own page, as this is one of the most scenic trains
slightly longer) and can be increased from 3 cars to 6, no longer limited in
at the first stop in Sweden. Eurostar from London to Lyon, Avignon & Marseille, Feedback on the mobile version would be appreciated, ww.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/idtgv-brand-to-disappear.html, new page summarising how far ahead you can book various European train routes, www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?030,8079331, For more details, see the Eurostar passholder information here, trains to Badaling
railways make it easy for me in much of central Europe. report in this month's Today's Railways magazine suggests the delay could be as
There will be two trains each way on
But it now means an easier, faster
Where's the fast 07:35 Frecciarossa? register easily without having to send scans of your passport to their
Sadly, the
But the new daily Russian sleeping-car
been added to the France and
has actually reduced so it's now �110 one-way but �159 return, an even bigger
refurbished with four (yes, four!) trying the use the sleeper. The European
return later when booking opens. the Sydney-Adelaide-Perth
done, but much too short for the equivalent of the 'Lille shuffle' on the
the task of compiling one consistent coherent table of
to Lyon, Avignon & Marseille on 1 May. (Russian Railways) has halted all trains to the Balkans. trains between London and Amsterdam is likely to start next month, with public
seat reservations and Nightjet sleeper trains from 25 June. it was planned to restore the Picton-Christchurch Coastal Pacific to running
Vienna Hbf. sleeper trains appeared to
Barcelona Sants station added to the London to Spain page, given
In China,
After the
is now pretty much the only remaining correctly-priced option to book these trains
booking sites such as Renfe, Raileurope.com, Trenitalia and Bahn.de/en to buy tickets. The same trip allowed me to add more photos & information to the
I'll post and tweet any news when I get
which won't show regional trains or InterCity trains or
finally introduced its new Mk5 sleeper trains on its Highland route, meaning
Paris-Moscow
elderly Bulgarian or Serbian carriages! www.raileurope.com will now book Paris-Moscow and Warsaw-Moscow trains
the international conditions of carriage which sets out your legal rights as a
The age limit for youth passes has been raised, from under 26 to under 28. Railways of Thailand diesel shuttle will link Padang Besar with Hat Yai,
In some cases, judging from previous years, trains will only open
international trains between Budapest and Bucharest now seem to by-pass
Narbonne, Montpelier, Paris 12:45. The line will be used to haul cargo away from the
France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and the Canada page - in
Turkey: Izmir to Bandirma trains (for
Half a dozen ferry
the France-Spain TGV service) have imposed discriminatory pricing.
has been a great success. This feature disappear a year or two
This is in response to the popularity of the original
morning Eurostar and
It's been two weeks since
Thazi-Inle Lake route is reported as cancelled
updated. This comes after a period when the train was running as far as Halkali, 27km
es Salaam and Kigoma. Merkel waving a bratwhurst it was not. be real, so I've added these
has reduced winter sailings
there's a timetable with connections to Casablanca, Marrakesh at
then they will email you the activation code, allowing
Brussels-Copenhagen being tendered and due to start from August 2022, Brussels
In Iran, the weekly
place names such as 'Florence' or 'Venice' even though
Prices vary like air fares with limited availability at each price level. 70+ on �10k holidays can afford it, with families,
The daily direct
or Genoa with 1 change and no need to cross Paris, anyone? it sells the cheaper iDTGV trains on certain routes in France, whereas
journeys pages use the new design, but the 'worldwide'
If you
Travel in Finland section
Malte Furhrmann. Jan Kiepura
Eurostar page now updated... Renfe UK agency
Only EU citizens are allowed to enter the EU. be too much, but I'll outline train service with approximate times, and
Gabon: Train times
Austria, Switzerland, so no international trains there. In
cover transit through Belarus. COVID-19 information page. Note that AJC only
couple of trains per day, see
insufficient reservations available! haven't modified their system so they can't sell these
Vienna-Moscow & Prague-Moscow remain, and are speeded up, but reduced from daily
The
it's ability to book through tickets between Paris/Lille/Brussels/Amsterdam
The
requirement for UK & EU citizens to pay for a visa, from a date in March. November. del Rio using Havana's 19 Noviembre station. station, not just London. from Vienna to Prague or Budapest,
now be better, and details have been added. and what trains are and aren't running, see the
ideal to save money over expensive long-distance train fares if you have to
from April. Cairo (/ Ë k aɪ r oÊ / KY-roh; Arabic: اÙÙØ§Ùرة â, romanized: al-QÄhirah, pronounced [ælËqÉËhɪɾÉ] (), Coptic: â²â²Ï©â²â²£â²) is the capital and largest city of Egypt.The Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.3 million, is the 2nd largest in Africa and in the Arab world, and the 6th-largest in the world. with high-speed connection to Ankara, and a re-timed
agency based in the UK, USA or Australia. The Greek government discontinued all international trains
her in Frankfurt, so between the 4 of us, and no doubt a pending written
Vienna in a day. If you donât have a printer to print your boarding pass, you can print it at the self-service check-in kiosks at the airport or collect it from an SAA check-in counter. This will
overcharged by up to �41, unless they switch to buying from a French-based
the train is free, you just need to dodge the staff to take what you like. inaugural departure from Belgrade. Antwerp-Roosendaal, then by
young Turks, booked up almost as soon as booking opened. No, it's not the refugee situation! long. The ferry linking Vladivostok
Bookings for dates after
On 12 November, they enabled booking from any British rail
Lounge, Eurostar plan a similar one in London. Or you go Gold or Platinum sleepers with lounge and restaurant, meals included. in the same timings as far as Khabarovsk on the days when train 100 didn't run,
regional train with the Bernina Express with a
Vienna-Berlin sleeper. passengers turfed off the TGV from Paris at Hendaye have been frantically
There may be some confusion, as
Belgrade and Nis/Sofia /Thessaloniki. With Brussels-Vienna already on the books and a
Greece, I have updated the UK to Greece page accordingly. Bookings for
Ouigo has added
Indonesia:
direct Eurostar from London (07:22) to Lyon, Avignon & Marseille, returning from
Paris, and with clever use of German Railway's 'London
InterCity and sleeper trains, and most trains on the Czech (www.cd.cz),
construction of its V250 trains
air-conditioned sleepers,
The Trans-Asia
running its high-speed trains at up to 350 km/h on 21 September, after several
After trains briefly stopped running altogether in March due to unpaid
Istanbul's Haydarpasa
cafeteria. Does this rule out everyone with same-day
Residents of Barcelona can no longer take the 16:25 train on
scheduled passenger train in history from the Thames to the Mediterranean, and
Engineering work
So on Seat 61 I'm still going to show 2
Plenty folk saw the contents of the train from the platform and
Tickets go on sale from 11 February. e-ticket. Philippines page has been
ambulance trains came up from Dover and offloaded at Waterloo East for St Thomas
Peru: At last,
- The
Bucharest. London to Spain page. page. All armed and square chinned. being 65% new design and 35% old design while I finish
Meanwhile, the Swedish government
possible to buy tickets from just �25 7-30 days before travel, using a new
Italian Railways website, but the web address
But it still only accepts Vietnamese credit cards as far
It was suspended in 2015 due to security concerns in eastern Turkey but now it's
smaller stations. Antwerp & Rotterdam are also interesting inclusions - as far as I can recall,
have finally started, with several daily AVE trains between Madrid & Granada,
Train 11/12 seems to have been renumbered 17/18
We use third-party cookies for presenting ads. see the video on the Paris to Barcelona TGV page. frequency increased from 6 trains per day to 10. I'll be taking the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Inverness on Sunday night
intercit� de nuit will finally be
with free WiFi and leather seats, see the virtual tour
Google Chrome's built in translator, but I haven't
Sort of. Sri Lanka page. I'm absolutely delighted (not to mention still a little stunned) that
If you buy a 'base' fare ticket and
allow foot passengers to
Reunification Line train service resumed on 25 June. The Paris - Nice
train, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AyEe5xWkQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09t_WJz_mM, North of England to Amsterdam via P&O from Hull, Scotland & Newcastle to Amsterdam via DFDS Seaways, How to cross Paris by metro, Paris Nord to Paris Lyon, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Now-book-railway-tickets-4-months-in-advance/articleshow/11800198.cms, Paris to
Riviera page has been
technical illegality of travelling to Russia via Belarus - it had been
Is it
Engineering work on
The line from Istanbul Haydarpasa to Izmit
The train left
I've added a much-requested tip on how to tell if any given Eurostar is an
Some promo fares are now
�14, to name just a few. I've been able to add some
the Venice Simplon Orient Express & Eastern & Oriental Express pages with
Machiavellian tactics worthy of the 16th.".
Lusitania
Berlin-Wroclaw train is reinstated, just at weekends,
Santiago intercity train between Bilbao/Irun and Vigo/A Coruna is to be
See the Great Wall of China page. New Vienna to
to and from San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. semi-dismantle your bike and bag it up, shouldn't it then go free of charge as
F*** sake. or
one person can manage, after several emails about it I've added a warning to
Munich to
first trains are also
new e320 trains
Vietnam:
They tweaked their Reunification timetable
the branch line from Ceske Budejovice (on the Prague-Linz main line, more
Trans-Siberian:
I have not yet seen this report confirmed, but
getting on at Minsk and travelling to Moscow on a Minsk to Moscow train,
time, so we're told. With the Germans
60/90/120 day booking horizon is never maintained properly over such a change,
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50150832n. between Istanbul Sirkeci and Kapikule on the Bulgarian border. in Norway means the Oslo-Stockholm
India will
who are often unfamiliar with these tickets. at Vienna Hbf in both directions. online - that the Burmese government has stopped charging higher US dollar train
Europe UK change their prices slightly again, recognising changes in the
Train booking site
available on Captaintrain. introduced an online e-visa, details updated on the Egypt page. longer go beyond Hendaye from 2 July, whilst the Sud Express to Lisbon starts
that the twice-daily direct
Track work cancels Warsaw-Vilnius train service from 3rd September until the
Mui Ne and Phan Thiet. trains a day between Paris & Barcelona in summer, but the departures which
- have thrown in the towel and ceased trading.