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

Let’s go in search of the red brick trail. This route links a number of cities that draw on a common architectural tradition, ...

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

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

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

Route 26 makes the perfect introduction to southern Scandinavia. Our journey runs up Jutland before we hop on a ferry across ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The appeal of this journey from Oslo to the Lofoten in Europe by Rail is undoubtedly the scenery and the real sense of ...