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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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