Très heureux de revoir un ami suédois connu grâce à #SFQ mais dans son pays 🇸🇪 cette fois fin octobre! 🚆réservés jusqu'à #Stockholm, inclus le #Snälltåget! #traintravel

UK: closing ticket offices, cutting services, carriages crumbling, blind people falling off platforms, all while raising ticket prices.

Meanwhile Germany and France:

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/09/08/france-will-launch-a-49-rail-pass-after-the-success-of-the-deutschlandticket

#PublicTransport #TrainTravel #PublicInfrastructure

And the inside. Demand is certainly high enough to fill trains more often than once every blue moon. Good thing the TV screens are shut off and are not annoying the passengers with some stupid advertisement! It's a smooth ride.
#TrainTravel #unterwegs

Étang de Leucate, #PyrénéesOrientales #france
#TrainTravel

#Traintravel along the coast...

On to Paris Gare du Nord and back on the Eustostar to St Pancras, then around the corner to Kings Cross and onto an LNER up to Embra. Choo choo. Nearly home 🚂

#trains #traintravel #SmallFlightlessBurd

Some delicious Antipasti later, we're moving on with this fancy RegionaleVeloce.
Pavia, #Lombardia #italia
#train #traintravel #vacation #flyless

Riding the Shinkansen from Kumamoto to Kyoto, Japan https://www.alojapan.com/915534/riding-the-shinkansen-from-kumamoto-to-kyoto-japan/

#Japan #japanrail #JR #Kumamoto #Kumamotodestinations #Kumamototour #Kumamototravel #Kumamototrip #Kumamotovacation #luggage #reservedseating #Shinkansen #trainjourney #traintravel #travelbytrain #熊本

So last night I was finally able to book the Berlin-Warszawa Express from Warszawa to Berlin, for travel mid October. But what’s going on with this EC 246?
- impossible to book on the Polish rail website intercity.pl?
- bahn.de didn’t show the (Super) Sparpreis?
- it doesn’t go to Berlin Hbf, but Berlin-Lichtenberg and Berlin Gesundbrunnen?
Finally managed to book using the Next DB Navigator app…
#trains #TrainTravel #CrossBorderRail

More trains? More trains! Biarritz is wonderful and we'll be back in a few days but for now we're wandering on. So we're back at Gare De Biarritz and ready to get on another TGV. Bonus nerdery: I was impressed with the ticket machines at Biarritz.

#trains #traintravel #SmallFlightlessBurd

Ok back to it! Station number 8 (if you include Raspail, which you should) is Paris Montparnasse, where we're catching a double-decker TGV! This is the last train we're catching today and I am very excited to see that our seats are in the upper deck.

#trains #traintravel #SmallFlightlessBurd

We've had a bit of a break for a wander and for caffeine and now we're at St Pancras International, ready to get on the Eurostar 🇪🇺⭐

#trains #traintravel #SmallFlightlessBurd

~42 minutes later and we're at GLQ. Recently(ish) clad in gold(ish). Our next train leaves from Glasgow Central (GLC) but we've got aaaaaages before it leaves. Still, GLC has luggage storage facilities, so we're heading there to drop off those bags.

#traintravel #trains #SmallFlightlessBurd

Prices on #RegioJet #trains are from different times. Cakes for €0.4, coffee for free, beer for €0.7...
I remember an interview with the founder and CEO where he was asked why they sell food and beverages on trains so cheap. And his answer was: we're in the business of selling tickets, not in the business of catering, we don't intend to make money on it. #traintravel #train

Winding up the albula north ramp...
Bergün, #Graubünden #switzerland
#RhB #trainTravel

Last bit, Eurostar from Paris to London.

#PassengerRail #TrainTravel #trains

In Paris after an Intercités de nuit night train from Marseille.

#PassengerRail #TrainTravel #trains

By the way, you can now travel from Madrid or Barcelona to Marseille in one go with Renfe AVE!

#PassengerRail #TrainTravel #trains

In Marseille for a few hours before catching night train to Paris

#PassengerRail #TrainTravel #trains

#WalkAcrossTheAlps Day 3: Brusio - Miralago
Today, a #sunday, there's more people on this #train than on our first two stages which were on saturdays. We still found an entire compartment to ourselfes (which is very helpful when travelling with a dog), this time upfront in the dual (AC and DC) EMU. Until Ospizio Bernina, a lot of people got out, so now we are the only ones in the coach.
Above Poschiavo, #Grigioni #switzerland
#RhB #FensterAuf #bernina #TrainTravel #hund