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Many thanks to you both for the information provided - much appreciated and very useful. We had a wonderful holiday including trips to Horni Plana and Trebon during our week in Ceske Budejovice, as well as a week in Vienna. All went well until yesterday afternoon when the French ATC strike...

30907 huge thanks, that gives me a lot to go on! I'll do some research based on what you have written, but I might just take you up on your offer depending on how I get on!

All good points. Another one is that, in an emergency evacuation, some people would inevitably try to grab their bags on their way to the exits - it has happened already with hand luggage, with predictably serious consequences, and this problem would be exacerbated if even one prat tried to get...

Folks, I'm off to Ceske Budejovice with the family later this month and I'm looking at days out in the surrounding area. One of the obvious possibilities is Cesky Krumlov. I'm keen for any tips or local knowledge, but in particular I'm wondering whether it's worth going further west from...

I don't know anything about the BR-124 but I can pretty much guarantee that it will have had some kind of baggage hold somewhere! Probably in the nose or the tail (quite possibly both). Let's face it, air travel in those days was mainly for wealthy people, who aren't known for travelling...

Just leave her out. If she wants to go that much, she can suck it up and fly, and if she's not that keen, then why make all this effort? If she goes on the train alone, who will get blamed if she gets lost/mugged/attacked either on the train or while changing trains? And if someone else...

Many thanks to all who have replied - a lot of really helpful information. Actually I hadn't, because Italiarail (which I found through Seat 61) claims to be powered by Trenitalia, so I assumed that I would get the same information. How wrong I was! Guilty! And a good point about the...

Many thanks to all who have replied - a lot of really helpful information. I take it you've tried Trenitalia? http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en Actually I hadn't, because Italiarail (which I found through Seat 61) claims to be powered by Trenitalia, so I assumed that I would get the same...

Good afternoon. I'm hoping to get to Sicily in April, and the flight times and prices to Bari are the best to that region, and I had expected that it would be fairly straightforward to travel by train from Bari down to Villa San Giovanni and across the straits. However, looking at Italiarail...

No trams to the Main Station any more - I was there in 2014 and the tracks clearly hadn't been used for quite some time. The adjacent railway museum had a lot of interesting exhibits, although don't expect any English (written or spoken!). Was still going in 2014 (hydrofoil rather than...

Our strategy this year is to stay just over the border (Weil-am-Rhein and Friedrichshafen) to enjoy slightly lower prices while still being within easy reach of Luzern, Zurich etc. We'll find out how well this works in August! Hoping for plenty of variety at the stations in Basel...

Hearing whispers of more redundancies looming in the freight sector - can anyone confirm? Worrying times for those affected...

Could you elaborate? At first glance this doesn't appear to make much sense!

Eh? Please elaborate!

How much of the above workload would the second crew member be able to perform under Southern's proposal?

No - simply that there's been less freight recently, plus Colas have been using 70s on the logs instead of their heritage stuff. If they were travelling London to Manchester, what were they doing on a train south of Shrewsbury?

Good for you. Most of us however aren't ageing naturists. And you seem to forget that the point of a railway is to serve its customers' various needs (which, not unreasonably for those going to an international airport, include luggage) rather than to please enthusiasts. I don't see...

Fair point, but surely there will always be a range of acceptable ability levels for any group of trainees in any field? Had this individual's ability been well below the norm, he would have been suspended from training or sacked outright, so the fact that he was being given another chance...

Some would say the last three words of the sentence are superfluous...

Unfortunately the statement in bold is not only simplistic but also wrong. How would any new pilot (or train driver) become safe to operate by themselves without a period of on-the-job training? The whole point is that the training captain/instructor is meant to monitor closely the performance...