by Hilary Nangle | Feb 18, 2017
No stress, bargain train travel in Europe One of the fastest, easiest, and least stressful ways to get around Europe is by train. On three recent trips over the pond, I used BritRail as well as SwissRail passes and individual tickets, both purchased through Rail...
by Malcolm Kenton | Jan 21, 2017
Travel across Canada by rail on The Canadian The Canadian, operated between Toronto and Vancouver by VIA Rail Canada, is a government-owned corporation that is akin to the US’s Amtrak. Although Canada has invested even less in passenger train development than the...
by Malcolm Kenton | Oct 20, 2016
European train services range across five to six different types of service that vary based on the length of the route and the comfort and level of service offered on board, from the luxury, speeding TGVs to plodding local service. Nearly all European trains have...
by Malcolm Kenton | Oct 13, 2016
I just completed a two-week tour of central Europe (Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, plus parts of France and Switzerland), starting and ending in Amsterdam, almost entirely by train. I built the trip around attending InnoTrans, the world’s...
by Malcolm Kenton | Aug 3, 2016
“May I have your attention please, ladies and gentlemen. The next stop, coming up very shortly, will be that of [station name]. If [station name] is your stop, please take this time to look above and around your seat, gather all your personal belongings, and make your...
by Malcolm Kenton | May 6, 2016
Because the United States does not have as expansive a passenger train network as most other industrialized countries (mainly the result of decades of federal policy that treats the travel modes as separate silos with different conditions rather than as part of a...
