This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany May 2014 This trip was a week roaming Europe: Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany Originally this trip was to include Slovenia but due Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany May 2014 This trip was a week roaming Europe: Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany Originally this trip was to include Slovenia but due Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany May 2014 This trip was a week roaming Europe: Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany Originally this trip was to include Slovenia but due Read the Rest…
This is an extract from a multi-country report to read the full report use the following link: Multi Trip Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany May 2014 This trip was a week roaming Europe: Germany – Croatia – Hungary – Switzerland – Germany Originally this trip was to include Slovenia but due Read the Rest…
Italy isn’t a country I’d have planned a bash to on it’s own, it all seems to be a bit hard for my liking, lack of gen, reservations for every IC train, to name but a few reasons; as part of a normal trip though I tried to arm myself with as much info as Read the Rest…
This was predominantly a normal trip to Switzerland and while visiting some places we’d been before there were still plenty of things on offer in the vicinity of said places that we hadn’t been. The one thing we hoped to do was visit Jungfraujoch as neither of us had been close to a glacier. One Read the Rest…
Prologue My second solo trip to India, hot on the heels of my first one two months previous! I’d had this trip planned in my head for a few years now but it was a trip that didn’t need to be forced as the area it was covering wasn’t either being electrified or having a Read the Rest…
This trip had been a long, long, time overdue and very likely too late with Peru Rail having modified their train service over the last 10 years quite dramatically; there now being no service at all to Arequipa and the trains to Machu Picchu no longer start at Cusco San Pedro. Still, things are what Read the Rest…
This trip had been planned very early on in the year. I’d had an idea of what i’d wanted to cover well before I put fingers to the keys and got it electronically typed up. It was to be a half re-run of a previously ill fated NE trip to Dibrugarh and would also cover Read the Rest…
After a very enjoyable trip to Switzerland in April we wanted to visit some other equally as scenic parts of Europe and Austria was one such place. As an add on to that I soon became aware, through my research, of an impending disaster; whereby the Mariazellerbahn would soon replace their 100 year old 1099 Read the Rest…
This trip had been one of those last minute, yet not so last minute plans. It was shoehorned in as a weekend away in Germany; literally days after I’d just booked a normal trip to Austria. This turned out to be a bit of a bonus in the end as it meant I could save Read the Rest…
While this trip wasn’t a trip in its own right it turned out to be an excellent way to get into and out of Germany; and a cracking time we had too….. Thursday 5th September 2013 (The only way is Lenzburg) Having stayed in London the night before, our conveyance to London City Airport was the Read the Rest…
Having been pondering doing Brazil since 2007 I finally got round to doing it; and not before time! The whole idea was to do the CBTU commuter lines with Alco RS8’s at Natal, Recife, Joao Pessoa & Maceio with a ride on the CPTM Expresso Turistico with an Alco RS3 to Jundai in Sao Paulo being a bonus. Initial Read the Rest…
Cuba is one of those countries which just seems too much like hard work but you know you’ve “got” to do it. The MLW’s had been on their last legs for years and were now confined to only Pinar Del Rio & Matanzas, the last turn based at Havana, the Artemisa commuter, having finished approx Read the Rest…
As we’d enjoyed our trip to Switzerland so much in January a quick return offered itself up as a trip away for my girlfriend’s birthday. Having planned it quite well to get between the places we’d visit there were some cracking opportunities to get some Re420’s in, among other stuff. As our journey from Doncaster to Read the Rest…
Hats off to those involved with the planning of this train, not only was the whole process from initial idea to execution simple but the information flow to those interested and later to those booked on the tour was excellent; simple and to the point. And not only that, the tour delivered exactly what was Read the Rest…
This trip was largely a recovery trip based around us missing out on a load of track in Bihar 12 months previous due to Patna Junction’s interlocking system being renewed creating havoc in the area, resulting in very late and cancelled trains making it impossible to plan anything so we’d got out of there. With Read the Rest…
This trip was just a long weekend away. My girlfriend & I wanted to relax and see some scenery, mainly mountains and snow, and what better place to do it than Switzerland? We traveled out by train from Doncaster to Montreux with East Coast to London, Eurostar to Paris Nord, TGV Lyria to Lausanne & SBB to Montreux; all tickets booked directly with the carrier Read the Rest…
A fantastic trip, the planning for which started some 18 months before we actually went, mainly to figure out when would be the best time to go to maximise the amount of Alco’s we could do. It turned out that December was by far the best time with all the leading mainline operators running Christmas Read the Rest…
Those of you having read my my India reports from the last couple of years know I’ve had a bit of a rough time of things and had various issues put in my way by Indian Railway’s, and even by God himself to prevent my plans from seeing themselves out the way they should. I’m Read the Rest…