At the heart of Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide – the 18th edition of which will be published on 24 October 2024 – are detailed descriptions of 50 amazing European rail journeys. Some journeys ...

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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 ...

This long journey from Berlin to Bavaria and on across the Austrian border to Salzburg takes in some very fine German cities (including Leipzig, Weimar and Munich) and some decent countryside – of ...

Beurs metro station in the busy heart of Rotterdam is the improbable starting point for this journey which takes in four countries and ends in south-west Ireland on the edge of the country’s first ...

The rail journey from Hamburg to Budapest can be completed in a long day. The sole direct service between the two cities takes just under 14 hours for a journey of about 1,300 km. Travel all the way ...

Cast back half a century and, in the late 1960s, you could board the Direct Orient Express when it stopped in Zagreb in the wee small hours of the morning and be in Sofia by early evening. Today’s ...

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 ...

Our journey as presented here in Route 14 was made possible with the completion of the new fast line from Barcelona to Madrid in 2008. While our natural inclination is to avoid high-speed lines, this ...

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 ...

This is a tremendous journey over one of Europe’s first mountain rail routes and links two very fine cities: Vienna and Venice. The Semmering Railway opened in 1854. In 1998, it was inscribed on ...

If there is one rail journey which has consistently fired the English imagination, it is the ride from London to the Scottish Highlands. We’ll cover over a thousand kilometres by train, travelling via ...