We chanced this week on a timetable for European night trains in 1999. So it’s interesting to look back and see which trains ...

This long journey from Berlin to Bavaria and on across the Austrian border to Salzburg takes in some very fine German cities ...

Lille and Cologne are two cities with very strong regional identities within their respective countries, but they could ...

While we normally encourage travellers to linger over journeys and stop off along the way, the very character of this route ...

European Rail News & Notes (ERN) is run by Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries. They are the authors of Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide. Here on the ERN pages, the book’s authors give updates on rail ...

This route takes in several glorious north Italian cities from Genoa in the west to Venice in the east – a veritable feast of art and architecture, along the way swapping the Mediterranean for the ...

This is one big leap across Germany, west to east. A sleek ICE train leaves Cologne Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) hourly for the German ...

Until 2020, Spanish rail operator Renfe ran the Camino de Santiago train, which broadly followed the route of the ancient ...

The train journey from Geneva to Barcelona is one of the finest excursions in this volume. It is a good practical way of covering a lot of ground, but it also takes in a wonderful medley of landscapes ...

Our journey commences in northern Sweden and ends in Stockholm, but actually the bulk of the rail travel on this wonderful ...

This is one of Europe’s classic rail journeys, as the route south from Cologne hugs the River Rhine and then, once past ...

Fifty years ago, the direct train to Basel stayed entirely west of the Rhine, traversing Belgium, Luxembourg and France along ...