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 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 journey starts in northern Sweden and tracks around the northern edge of the Gulf of Bothnia to reach Finnish territory. On the long journey south, we take in Finland’s three largest provincial ...

If there is one rail journey which has consistently fired the English imagination, it is the ride from London to the Scottish Highlands. We’ll cover over a thousand kilometres by train, travelling via ...

Get a flavour of Europe by Rail. Read four extracts from the new 18th edition of the guidebook, which will be published in October 2024. We would like to give you an idea of the sort of prose you’ll ...

This is one of Europe’s classic rail journeys, as the route south from Cologne hugs the River Rhine and then, once past Koblenz, follows the dramatic Rhine Gorge upstream. Moving over the ...

You can cut off to the south of the main railways which link Hannover with Berlin to discover the glorious landscapes of the Harz Mountains, a region which boasts Europe’s finest network of ...

This is a tremendous journey over one of Europe’s first mountain rail routes and links two very fine cities: Vienna and Venice. The Semmering Railway opened in 1854. In 1998, it was inscribed on ...

Let’s not beat about the bush. The main rail route linking Cologne with Berlin will hardly inspire you with fine scenery. A sleek ICE train leaves Cologne Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) hourly for the German ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the direct train to Basel stayed entirely west of the Rhine, traversing Belgium, Luxembourg and France along the way. The through trains have gone, but the railways are still there.