YorkshireBear
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Being reported in this months Modern Railways that the rail ferry service on the Hamburg-Copenhagen route (Fehmarnbelt Ferry) is to be stopped from the December Timetable change. Apparently due to the volume of engineering works being undertaken to facilitate the new fixed link trains were being diverted via Jutland for a lot of this year anyway and so the decision has been taken to stop the service early.
A great shame, I was previously led to believe it would survive until shortly before the fixed link opened and was planning on doing it in a few years time. I am in Hamburg for the weekend in December just before it stops for good and am very tempted to go on it, but I don't think I will have the time which again is a shame. I believe this will leave the ferry from the Italian Mainland to Sicily as the only all year round passenger train ferry in Europe, with the BErlin to Malmo sleeper in the summer months being the only other one. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
For anyone wanting to do it before the end, engineering work means the only chance left to do the trip is 1st October to 14th December.
A great shame, I was previously led to believe it would survive until shortly before the fixed link opened and was planning on doing it in a few years time. I am in Hamburg for the weekend in December just before it stops for good and am very tempted to go on it, but I don't think I will have the time which again is a shame. I believe this will leave the ferry from the Italian Mainland to Sicily as the only all year round passenger train ferry in Europe, with the BErlin to Malmo sleeper in the summer months being the only other one. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
For anyone wanting to do it before the end, engineering work means the only chance left to do the trip is 1st October to 14th December.