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I got into a discussion about this on another forum, where I compared the UK (my homeland) to Sweden (where I live now). Sweden has not one single manned ticket office, and SJ is in the process of removing the last self-service ticket machines from the few big stations that still have them...

Hello from Marrakech in Morocco. I flew here from Athens on Tuesday and was oblivious to the accident until the next morning. I had travelled by train from Thessaloniki to Athens about 24hrs prior to the accident, so the events have been quite upsetting for me and my partner. The journey was...

Yes, as others have noted, Heathrow Express remains as the expensive but fast option from Heathrow. Both the Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line (formerly TFL Rail, formerly Heathrow Connect) trains depart from the same platforms at the Heathrow railway stations. There are loud, persistent...

Reece Martin (whose tweet was quoted) has just published this video. Looks very smart.

Yes. I'm not sure about the bus-ownership situation - maybe that depends on local regulations in certain EU member states. Flixbus describes itself as "a young mobility provider ... a combination of tech-startup, e-commerce-platform and transportation company". Not a bus company or train...

Quick PS. FlixTrain have applied to Trafikverket - the Swedish Transportation Administration - to start domestic passenger rail services on the Stockholm - Gothenburg and Stockholm - Malmö corridors in 2021. The operation of trains will most likely be contracted to Hector Rail, who have already...

FlixTrain suspended operations in Germany during the start of the coronavirus lockdown. However, around the same time - and possibly while FlixTrain attempted to use the Covid situation to leverage better financial terms - Rail Development Corporation's (RDC) German subsidiary...

Thanks for the kind words! In fact, this is an opportune moment to tell everyone that we have now emigrated to Umeå, Sweden. Last year’s visit was for a job interview, and this month the work begins. We made the whole trip from Norwich, England by train. We sold or stored our stuff, shipped...

Thanks for sharing that memory. This helps me clarify what I misunderstood about the inland route. The route you took is now closed to regular passenger traffic, although Inlandsbanan continues to operate a railcar for summertime tourist traffic. It takes about 14 hours end to end (from...

At your service  :giggle: My trip was for work, and I hope I can wrangle another trip to Umeå one day soon. However, the most spectacular journey opportunities are on the Stockholm - Umeå - Luleå - Kiruna - Narvik (Norway) Arctic Circle train.  In addition to the sleeper, there is...

Sorry - I should clarify. First class compartments are not shared with strangers, however, two people can book a first-class compartment together and sleep in two berths. Elsewhere on the train, there are second-class compartments for 1-3 people (no en-suite bathroom; toilets and showers at...

Apologies for thread drift, but a good time to plug my trip report from Gothenburg to Umeå on SJ's night train last month: 

I had to make a quick trip from the UK to northern Sweden last month. My destination was Umeå, in Västerbotten, which is Sweden's "mid-north." In current tourism material for the city, a cartoon character is overlaid on a map of Sweden to emphasise that Umeå is roughly where the 'heart' of...

Here's the interesting thing. The press materials released at the time of the announcement (including this web page on viarail.ca specifically state (with my emphasis): The LRC entered service 1981-84, so it's clear that the fleet renewal announcement refers to them. If the HEP2 cars were being...

PS. Here's a recent video trip report of Enterprise First Plus from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Central, from the producer of countless similar (primarily airline) trip reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLkK255p9VM My mother's family is from Northern Ireland, and I have lived and studied...

The Dublin - Belfast corridor is a bit different to the rest of Ireland, with a rather obscure dedicated fleet of carriages manufactured by De Deitrich, hauled by GM locomotives and now with intermediate generator vans converted from old 'Irish mark 3' carriages. The interiors were refurbished...

My understanding is that construction is under way for a sterile area on Amsterdam Centraal platform 15, which is the northernmost track facing the IJ. Twice a day this will be closed, swept and kept sterile for passengers after checking in at concourse level. At Rotterdam, work is underway to...

Forgot to include to the already-updated info on Seat61.com here. Trains depart London at 08:31 (Mon-Sat) and 17:31 (Sun-Fri); in the opposite direction they depart Amsterdam at 07:48 (Mon-Sat) and 16:48 (Sun-Fri). The journey will take around 3h 41m eastbound, just over 4 hours westbound.

After years of planning and months of testing, Eurostar has today announced that two daily round trips will operate direct between London St. Pancras International and Amsterdam-Centraal from 4 April 2018. Tickets are on sale from 20 February, and will start at £35 one way (about $50). Customs...

Unfolding now: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/04/dead-injured-south-carolina-train-crash