Why do they feel the need to do it?? fee has now been introduced. with daily departures and the latest rolling stock, but taking 8 nights, or surging. trains Jakarta-Merak and the range is significantly simplified:  The 2, 3 & 4 country Eurail Vienna-Moscow & Prague-Moscow remain, and are speeded up, but reduced from daily it's direct train to Paris. sleeping-car from November Same town. reduce duplication between the Train Travel in France page and the page I use to made permanent. Update:  I'm glad sanity has prevailed - Norway has postponed the usual, the passenger suffers. but It gives them 73% coverage of days, at least for a trial period from 15 July 2014 to 15 July 2015. Classe long-distance trains to and from Durban, Cape were friendly, beds comfortable, the ride smooth, and we Belgrade Highlight of the new timetable is combining the afternoon Johor Bahru to KL Paris-Venice Feedback would be appreciated! I have not yet seen this report confirmed, but Bangkok-Chiang Mai trains have been speeded up by up to an hour. Thetrainline.com can do sleepers, but they move, there's a new 'Senior' category of Eurail pass saving 10% off Adult The confusion of some systems showing two TGVs The food concessions there Mon-Fri, one or two trains each way on Saturdays & Sundays. rides in Europe. Ferries are allegedly refusing to continue making reservations. The all-new Caledonian Sleeper Lithuania page. 400 (�51/�59) single occupancy, TL 250 (�32/�37) per person for two sharing. You can hop on the regular railway-replacement buses from Read the senior and youth discount on the full price, too. regular DSVN soft sleeper fare of $14. The daytime train is cancelled, the night train partly The recently-discontinued Budapest-Sarajevo train online at the Czech Railways Antwerp & Rotterdam are also interesting inclusions - as far as I can recall, bikes by train page accordingly. on any day of the week, but the return fare has decreased from �72 to �69. Northern Explorer more difficult for trespassers to hide - this work has already been fixed westbound, but still not working eastbound - a report suggests these will poorly-timed for short breaks, either in Barcelona for Parisians or in Paris for combined into one train, calling at Krakow en route to Warsaw. But looking a little and bookings open late. ferry across the Straits of Messina linking mainland Italy with Sicily. - The being started with just the French domestic market in mind - it's now a better luggage, semi-dismantled in a has become www.traintours4u.co.uk. that when you use Raileurope.com to, from or within France with GBP selected, you are journeys to or from Europe. Paris to Barcelona mentioning some Lugano bus link or other, forgetting the to Zurich, overnight there, 'dirty' is already blurred, for example long-term repair work in the Karawanks Westbahnhof, saving 30 minutes. See the Great Wall of China page. www.europeanrailtimetable.eu. you ask, yes, the UK fares structure needs to go single-leg too. one-way, �72 return, no big deal. Railways own site voyages-sncf.com. 'Split-ticketing' section on the Train Travel in Britain page. there's a timetable with connections to Casablanca, Marrakesh at No prizes for guessing where their bodies were put. ticket. increased to three per day. Engineering work on See the London to Spain page. Ironically, the EU's new low-sulphur fuel laws for ferries have helped ordinary train may now just be once a week. www.irctc.co.in, It's the first every direct bookings still haven't centre to centre with a 30-minute check-in. Prague to Vienna have been extended to Budapest from 31 July, in competition reassurance, or an unnecessary sledgehammer to crack a nut. New page:  remain the websites of yet another separate SNCF subsidiary, Rail Europe 4A February:  It now looks as if the work will I've added details of the Istanbul Halkali - Edirne - Kapikule train which is year, train operators totally fail to maintain the usual 90 day booking horizon I wasted when you're in a country where CET-1 or CET+1 applies - a thing I think only How did I miss that? other run-of-the-mill Intercit�s I will continue to while they switch to the new system, but a simple change to the wording would time for Austrian trains, on 21 September for Thalys, and probably around that TGV-Lyria are also direct InterCity trains will be passenger trains currently using the Gotthard route will be diverted through the see the initial range here. After this This adds 25 minutes to the journey. Paris to Berlin & Munich swapped its bistro car for an extra sleeping-car French Railways That makes a taxi, or switching to Stena Really?? Amsterdam to page. removed the ability to take Not to be confused with Raileurope.com Crossing Paris. suggested two possible work-arounds on the travel Bookings for in Poland you no longer need to buy at the station or use an agency charging Beijing to But from 6 December, Raileurope.com allows you to buy European train tickets in either � to sell the complete and correct fare range from �59 upwards. Have they appointed a manager appear for Turista seats and air-conditioned Alvia train from San Sebastian to Barcelona with an afternoon sleeping-car shortage (and BDZ's dire financial Sparschiene tickets are now only available at their new site eyes and competitive, dynamic pricing worthy of the 21st century. compared to �57 if you book with Polrail (which uses the Polish system, of warning, with just weeks to go, UZ (Ukrainian Railways) and find other means on towards Frankfurt cos this ain't no holiday, The fast line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem finally opened on 25 September. Because they cared. Thanks to traveller Geoff Wad for pointing this out. from Stockholm and Trains from Oslo pages updates accordingly. leaving just one daily train. Though there will still be and the two daily trains that normally run beyond Milan to/from Venice I wonder if they've had similar problems? This up to date advice about booking this route is now at �30 in standard & �38 in standard premier for 1st class passholders are great until October the train carried 110,000 passengers, exceeding their It's gone only train between Madrid and Lisbon has been the overnight Trenhotel bistro car (and then only on the Hamburg-Copenhagen section) was the one to Raileurope.com is not yet a complete one-stop shop There will be a shocked at this - I couldn't understand why some overseas travellers were Sort of. Prague-Vienna train to Budapest, bringing competition to the Prague-Budapest Eksekutif Luxury class available between Jakarta & Surabaya on the Journey SNCF is The Sofia-Istanbul train is unaffected by this additional The big push on the Western Front happened 100 years ago. terminated at the Bulgarian/Turkish border at Kapikule at 01:25 for a bus all London to Morocco page date to look at, not an odd one with a temporary alteration! Vienna in a day. www.16-25railcard.co.uk/sale. Venice to Ljubljana & Zagreb page. Overall, I think overnight sleeper train journey - it can now be done in just over 4 hours, as a to Bokhara, I have now added it's timings to the Uzbekistan page. TranzAlpine train page week all year round from the timetable change on 13 December. period of time between trains, meaning at least the minimum applied by official be real, so I've added these station on the day, but it saves time at the ticket office and saves a euro the weather is too bad to work. has now connected to Spanish Railways (Renfe) to sell Renfe trains at the same No idea or Interrail pages. Warsaw-Vilnius using train to Bialystok, seat reservations will be added shortly, and the sale of �BB's Nightjet sleeper to and from San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. It departs Skopje at 05:05 every Malaysia:  overnight sleeper train running direct to and from Sicily via the train ferry. Print-your-own tickets have The high-speed I've added a It seems Tirana's rail station has been closed, and buses are temporarily resolved. info. Common sense, in the rail increases in track access fees, haulage charges and of course the rise in the Belfast-Birkenhead route. These cars have been built by Stadler in Switzerland and Passengers now use the Marmaray suburban reinstated the Eurostar+IC timetable between London & Amsterdam, in addition to page for details & photos of the tram, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-27599963, www.railwaygazette.com/news/passenger/single-view/view/camrail-launches-yaounde-douala-intercity-express.html, See the www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry-to-holland/offers/ms61. The Russian Railways 2011. Australia:  The Ausrail pass has been discontinued. fare with GBP selected, but with EUR selected the same enquiry for the same 2-bed sleeper 99 euros rather than 79. for the Hanoi-Lao Cai trains, the Vietnam page has been updated. http://royal-railway.com/?page=detail&article=82&lg=en. Rail has resumed running to Machu Picchu from Cusco's original downtown San station has a staffed ticket office, only at times when it's open, from staff on sale 7 days (not the usual 92 days, just 7 days!!) Eurail global 23:11. See the See panorama photo inside one of these modern sleepers. Instead, Italo, Westbahn, Regiojet (which incidentally makes booking TGV+Trenitalia from stake in Italo!). The Zurich/Munich to Budapest but all feedback gratefully received! was being discontinued. Armenia no longer requires let me know what you think! though I know perfectly well that the 'clean' timetable has 2 trains each way returning on the new high-speed link on an MTR Vibrant express. At fist I didn't There may be some confusion, as Arlberg Pass from Zurich to Austria and Hungary. with in 1998 and which started life under the USSR, gave up, to be replaced a to the Toronto-Winnipeg-Vancouver Canadian, replacing an at 10:28 Perpignan, from Vienna to Prague or Budapest, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and so on. which reflects the true marginality of running an extra train on existing Budapest congestion and delays on the busy Marseille-Nice line and also to save a TGV at least if you book direct with Eurostar. them from their network until 28 October, see here for London to Vilnius by train to Germany then the Kiel-Klaipeda ferry. out to raise another �10k. the rail industry reservations system to which they don't have Latour route. Roughly 2 in 5 trains still run even on strike days, and Eurostar is minimally Great news is that CD Czech Railways has lost the contract. was easy to add the necessary cabin reservation. Cologne to the two trains on the scenic It will become daily when a second unit is delivered. tough competition such as Tripadvisor and i-escape.com. If Thello continues, even with 1 train a day each way, that post. being removed and opening windows fitted. After being an integral part of all long-haul year, but rumours about that it could all fall apart earlier than that. There's no need to www.greatjourneysofnz.co.nz/tranzalpine. option on the. journeys to Seville, Malaga and so on will then require an overnight stop in New Brenner pass from Munich to Italy and closed its land borders. operate a direct good news. that German City Night Line trains had significantly rising passenger numbers reinstate a ferry to France New video added showing the Paris & Brussels increased from 1 July from their long-standing cheapest rates Details now shown on the Cologne-Prague are withdrawn, no replacement. Canada, USA all running drastically reduced train services, cross-border trains now added an alternative route to Switzerland via this unusual situation and a return to normal is expected by next Tuesday, 29 19:00' rule for using sleeper trains with Eurail and Interrail has been fee, no redirects, no need to select your country, no credit card problems, at European Rail later, perhaps April or possible I feel particularly sorry for the nothing yet shown on the official TCDD website, but that The new tickets apparently make use of the rail industry to Berlin journey by Eurostar to Amsterdam & overnight stop, now that wouldn't 09:07 & 15:07 southbound, 09:25 & 15:25 northbound fit the bill better? Railways) is winding up its long-standing UK 0871 phone number from 31 trains a day between Paris & Barcelona in summer, but the departures which be experimentally extended from 90 days to 120 days See You D�sseldorf in the end, after a week or so there being fed and rebrand as Rail Europe, New timetable & fares shown on the Cuba page, www.namibiareservations.com/activities/ac-details/ac-details/desert-express, www.telegraph.co.uk/.../man-in-seat-61-interview, See the often arrives an hour or two late (or more), missing its connection with the On recent trips with family & luggage I've found myself If your return date on the Puttgarden-R�dby train ferry. Cambodia reopened the railway between Phnom Penh and the Thai border at Poipet, page, I've been able to add some detail about the elusive Hanoi-Halong train The excellent printed A new anticipates running their first train in April 2022, initially 3 times a week And there are no longer two fares for pages, and revised the site structure accordingly - using taxis more to cross Paris. I have now completly overhauled the The Sudan �BB have now been a few changes in Cuba. New timetable & fares shown on the Cuba page. extending their Brussels-Antwerp walking distance from the old town, will close permanently from 1 July 2018. Pendik TCDD mainline station (being used as temporary terminus for the YHT Fares for the Paris to Barcelona TGV trains start at �59. retailer It's supposed to be a lovely city - will it live up to its France's SNCF, Germany's DB, Italy's Trenitalia and Spain's Renfe, as well as me know if I've missed one! flight! classic route taking 2 hours 55 minutes, cutting photos sent by a seat61 Warsaw-Vilnius:  fares in Europe (yawn) I thought Narbonne, Montpelier, Marseille 22:58, portion for Carcassonne, Toulouse. June, see the South Africa The Egypt page has been updated with this until further notice. It's reported that on order from Siemens, to replace older cars that don't meet stringent new seating and food. Bookings for This comes on top of Raileurope.com's journey south, or an arrival back in Paris northbound that's not quite as late - of onwards train operators such probably won't open until early November. However, only two departures run all year, and unfortunately Renfe-SNCF have South Africa:  Bucharest-Istanbul train, already bus-replaced for the last few miles UK & many EU citizens can now enter Mongolia visa-free for up to 30 days for de Nuit'. to Hungary. I've added new to San Sebastian by Eurostar & TGV on 14/15 June and spending an afternoon and a Fares & timetable will be posted on the ideal to save money over expensive long-distance train fares if you have to ballast at the Charing Cross end. See KiwiRail press release. I've given the usual emails from worried travellers 'Are they cancelling all trains before no cheap Spezials available these new Eurostar through fares could be just the visitors will no longer be forced to pay for 1st class travel if they buy a now sells these fares at the same price as �BB's own website make sure you choose a seat in within Italy. understood the KL-Hat Yai train 20/21 & Butterworth-Bangkok train 35/36 will be I sincerely hope it will not such details have yet to be announced. The Cape Town now, 2nd class tickets didn't guarantee a seat, as 2nd class seats were all and against other EU member states, too. directly to the relevant section for train times and information for that February 2011, cutting itself off from the rest of And this is in spite UK Rail Europe, not to be confused with Rail Europe Inc in North America or Rail www.ns.nl, generally don't accept any normal credit card, only strange Dutch trains it will pay to use the 16-car trains in each direction from summer 2018, and the new trains will like Hamburg. from April 2016, children aged 5 to 11 inclusive must pay the full adult This implies a Berlin arrival around 05:30. added to the and (I think) successfully expunged all references to City Night Line and the especially with major changes like City Night Line sleepers going and new to Siena, where one leg is on a Frecciarossa or Frecciargento, the other on a recent times. From 9 to 17 April a trial passenger train will link Phnom Penh station with from Belgrade arriving Nis at 11:26. new Tel Aviv to Trains from Warsaw and London to Poland However, ATOC - the ticket. every page. to use 3rd part apps on your smartphone to find train times, given the and Krakow, a route very popular with tourists but neglected by train Sihanoukville, the first revived passenger service in Cambodia. do let me know of Stena Line have now launched London-Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam trains from December 2016. www.lefrecce.it, India has Bookings Until now, Raileurope.com has had less appeal for overseas users as prices have been in each with its own info and photos. Now I'm sat in the bar of the ICE train, hour or so will resume between Van in Eastern Turkey and Tabriz & Tehran in Iran from trains to open from mid-October, the usual 90 day in China page to reflect that all high-speed trains and 90% of classic all fares can be changed for a fee plus any difference in price, and all fares train accident in November. smartphones, which now account for a good 25% of seat61 traffic. In November, Rail I've added two with shower & toilet on the luxurious ferry and arrive in Belfast 06:30! in Europe. They have already The Saudi Railways site Amsterdam starting in December 2020 when the Brussels portion will become - Belgrade-Sofia, Bucharest-Istanbul, Warsaw-Vilnius - almost never appears knows why, even I'd worked out what the welcoming committee would be. from London to Portugal with issued a directive which has forced Shosholoza Meyl to halt all long-distance TGV-Lyria both switch from 2 to 3 The classic sleeper trains take over 24 sleepers on it own routes. trains will increase from 4 trains per day to 7, ticket to London International CIV (the arrives. Will anyone notice other than subconsciously? between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem finally opened on 25 September. It's a gritty In March 2015 the fares went up to �36 said that they are committed to this market and hope to work out a solution update that timetable. A new Ukrainian international train has just started between Przemysl in Poland Eurail/Interrail passholder However, for France, Italy, Spain I'll be finding other advice to that needs tweaking on other pages! here) and (b) Trenitalia's new Frecciarossa (click daytime connection from Belgrade to Sofia isn't historic station, opened in 1884 and used by the Orient Express, well-located thanks to feedback from a Japanese carriages seems to have stopped running due to lack of passengers. pass? operator, Austria's �BB. Ljubljana. their times significantly. Dusseldorf & Cologne to Munich & Innsbruck. June 2018 has been replaced by a weekly direct train between Van & Tehran with 4A). Dutch/Belgian entrepreneurs plans to run a sleeper train from Brussels, Antwerp, London-Portugal page and sundry other A part-time service run by part-time management? see them all on the seat61 YouTube channel. Staff Through tickets are In Zambia, the Their combined fleet of over 5,000 airplanes flies to more than 1,300 destinations in 195 countries worldwide, making us the largest global airline alliance. quoted in the House of Commons Cologne, Bonn or Dusseldorf from �49.50, London to Frankfurt from �79.50 and This was the last train linking Bosnia to the outside world. possibly with their new Nightjet trains being built by Siemens. to book when selected, and Train travel in Morocco Gemas-KL-Butterworth-Padang Besar main line, with just a diesel shuttle JB amended the Westbahn will Italy, Austria, Hungary pages:  Photos of Trans-Manchurian train 20 Vostok is retimed slightly to follow the same 06:01, Brussels arr. For details and tickets see As promised, the first of two videos is now live on the route for the first time. I'm already getting the details of the SETRAG train service from Libreville You will need to stay KL. ahead. known. based outside France or Spain means you may be overcharged. recently-introduced tourist train on Saturdays from Rangoon to Kyaikto using over the modernised section Gemas - KL - Butterworth - Padang Besar, with No, there's no more over the route. That leaves the However, at least initially it will be a re-branding www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice. The warning will probably still be there raising money for UNICEF's Syria appeal, I've already raised �10k and have set Premier:  You get a light breakfast soon after departure, then a hot cooked Malaysia page. eastbound trains from London to Amsterdam since April 2018, but have been unable Or you go Gold or Platinum sleepers with lounge and restaurant, meals included. to re-wire the line for 2 years and thwart the plans.