The great advantage in travelling by train in Europe vs. taking the plane is that you can stop off in small places. Here's a ...

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You can cut off to the south of the main railways which link Hannover with Berlin to discover the glorious landscapes of the Harz Mountains, a region which boasts Europe’s finest network of ...

If you take the modern high-speed line south to Andalucía described in Route 14, you’ll find it slices through the Sierra Morena like butter. You’ll hardly notice the hills. But if you have a few ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 you follow just one Norwegian route in this book, make it this journey from Oslo to beyond the Arctic Circle. This long ride north nicely reveals the variety and scale of Norwegian landscapes. The ...