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Probably not going to use interrail. It's going to be fun to purchase all the tickets. - Brussels to Paris on Ouigo I can buy at the Brussels Midi international counter. - Paris to Nantes on the SNCF OUIGO web site only - Nantes Bordeaux Toulouse Latour de Carol - Brussels Midi should be able...

OK - thanks for the many repliés so far. Here are some points I can already answer : 1) I will be travelling alone, my wife will fly. She’s no train fan. We are used to do it that way. I will fly back with her. So no tourists stops on the way, this will be for when we're at destination...

Wife and I plan to spend 2 weeks vacation in Northern Portugal end of September. As bonus, I consider doing the trip from Belgium to Porto by train. My experience with Spanish and Portuguese trains being minimal, I would appreciate any help I could get. Conditions of travel are the...

On the sud-est network I'm not sure. On the north, on the line to Brussels, mistral inox stock was also used for TEE trains, and when those got derated, some of those carriages were converted to second class with denser seating.

The dedicated stock used on Paris - Brussels - Amsterdam was in fact made - for the French part - of corail stock painted in the C1 livery, orange with a grey stripe below the windows. They were complemented by 10 VSE first class cars. Out of the 100 VSE cars ordered by SNCF, all 1st class, 10...

”Act of God” is a kind of legal term to name events that nobody can be held responsible for.

Same in Belgium.

As far as I understood correctly, the train encountered an automatic signal at danger and therefore proceeded with "driving on sight" as prescribed by the rulebook. This explains that it was going slowly and remained on the rails.

It was in 2011.

Ah OK, the procedure has changed then. When I was there, we were not asked to leave the train for immigration checks. They just collected our passports and gave them back about one hour later. The only country where I ever had to leave the train for border checks is Turkey.

Just out of curiosity, why could you not observe the bogie swap procedure in Erlian ? We were able to look at everything when we were there 14 years ago...

What is the potential size of traffic ? What is the flight capacity currently offered between Switzerland and London ?

I have done this trip in 2011. Brussels Koln Berlin Warsaw Moscow Ekaterinburg Irkutsk Ulaanbaatar Beijing. We got all our tickets using the Real Russia travel agency, a solution which is not available today because of the sanctions. However, the man is seat 61 explains on his site how to buy...

Le Touquet line was for the Silver Arrow service. London to Paris half by train and other half by plane. The train came on the airport's apron but as far as I know did not cross any runway. Still needed a clearance from the airport's tower to open the entry signal. Today the track has been...

Yes you can... Note that there is such an arrow on each of the 4 tracks. So not only to the attention of belgian drivers, as the two leftmost tracks come from Vlissingen and are thus only used by Dutch drivers. These arrows are used in Belgium also, for the same reasons. 1746130593 Yes...

OK, let's look at this border crossing in full detail. See the pictures below. First one is a Google Street View at the level crossing north of the station, looking north. You first see the "administration change" sign, telling the driver that from now on, he must drive in accordance to the...

The border is just a few meters north of Essen Station. For people who know what to look for, the border location is obvious : OHLE equipment as well as lineside signals are totally different. Note however that the voltage change is not located at the physical border : the Dutch catenary...

And then there is the Ouigo Train Classique between Brussels and Paris which is made of SNCB I11 rolling stock and hauled all the way by an SNCB HLE18 loco. At least the loco and the driving trailer are not in Ouigo livery. But more often than not, other cars are not in Ouigo livery either...

Swiss franc is the currency used for all international transactions between railways affiliated to the UIC. For example, when a loco or carriage runs on a foreign railway (like a French CC40100 hauling an international from Paris to Brussels), the price for those kms is expressed in Swiss francs.

I crossed à lot of them. The most interesting one was the border between Burgaria and Greece. Stopped at the Bulgarian border station of Kulata, where the 25 kV catenary ends, to replace the Bulgarian electric loco by a Greek diesel one, and remove the Bulgarian cars that did not travel further...