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This week's winter storm caused a lot of disruption to the Norrland night trains. SJ decided to cancel their trains completely, but on...

I could probably suggest a few stations in South Africa, although I have not travelled extensively enough to know them personally...

Mark Radcliffe played a track on BBC Radio 6Music this morning from a collection of electronic tracks by the artist 'Ciclismo'. This...

From our base in Umeå, in northern Sweden, I want to sample both the new Norrtåg passenger service between Boden and Haparanda (starting...

I saw one of the prototypes (from the outside) in Switzerland in the very early 1990s. Was travelling as a child with my parents, and I...

Thanks! THe SnowHotel appears closed this season. The Ice Hotel in Sweden is open... but at around 6000kr a night I might have to give...

Hello. We are tentatively planning a circular trip around the Gulf of Bothnia next Easter - using the new Norrtåg service from Umeå to...

Thanks for sharing the photos @Shikansenfan. I consider myself to be very lucky in that, despite being from Britain, my first ever trip...

This is another reminder of why not only the IC3 itself but also the IC3 concept was - and is - so innovative. It is perhaps the most...

New York Penn station and Paris Châtelet Les Halles are two examples of terrible planning and extremely poor usability. I know the...

Juho Hannukainen, the Director of Long-Distance Planning at VR, reminds us in a tweet today that Allegro, the high-speed train between...

This is my periodic opportunity to express the sincere opinion that the DSB IC3 is one of Europe's most utterly interesting trains. The...

As per an article on Järnvägar (in Swedish) this week, Flixtrain has announced an agreement with the Swedish operator Hector Rail to...

Apparently, people like to go shopping today. :rolleyes: If, like me, you value travel over material possessions, you might like this...

I shall! I tend to make very long tweet threads of my European railway journeys... Still need to scope it out, but current plan is Umeå...