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  1. Mark_Lester

    That Littel Yellow Train, and the Spanish end

    I cannae find any timetables for the Latour de Carol end. Have they pulled the whole thing up in order to put fancy trains on it from Barca to Toulouse or sommat ? Also, I saw a pic of open carriages like on the Bernina in the summer (11:20 train I think). Does anyone know if that's just for...
  2. Mark_Lester

    Burma Railways Route Planner

    I am a software engineer and I am building open source / open data routee tinding systems for places like Bangladesh and Burma and anywhere else that's "off the map". ("open source / open data" means the software if free, you can install it yourself if you wish, and so is the data, you can put...
  3. Mark_Lester

    Bangladesh Railways Route Finder

    I am going to Bangladesh in the New Year. As you wil be aware if you've ever looked at the place, finding any data on the country is hard enough. Finding a comprehensive listing of the timetable is impossible. So I thought we should make one. I wanted to show you all this after I have got...
  4. Mark_Lester

    Bangladesh

    This site is quite bonkers http://www.railway.gov.bd They dont seem to do timetables as such. I get a list of trains and times leaving from termini stations, but no details of there they stop. And this one is too hopeful by half http://rootsbd.com/eticket/ My chum is going to come in...
  5. Mark_Lester

    Is the only way right over the Oberalp to get Glacier Express itself?

    I once caught the Glacier Express, but only realised as we disappeared into a massive tunnel that it only goes over the top in the summer, i was a few weeks early. I am looking at going from geneva to vienna by the most mountainous route, so via mont blanc, then over the oberalp and on to...
  6. Mark_Lester

    lancaster to york, why is it cheaper to book two returns via leeds

    can someone explain this lancaster leeds off peak = £26.50 anytime = £28.50 leeds york off peak = £11.80 anytime = £15.20 but if you book it the whole way lancaster york off peak £52.50 anytime £67.70
  7. Mark_Lester

    pictures NOT of the trans siberian railway

    here are some typically misleading photos of the trans sib which I'd appreciate if you could identify more precisely, but they are all blatantly nowhere near siberia 1. obv north america...
  8. Mark_Lester

    Taking bread knives on european trains

    Not something I was too worried about, till I read the thread on the Eurostar. http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=64218 We are planning on doing quite a bit of picnicking, and as such had planned to bring several bread knives. We wont need them till we leave Brussels, so we'll just...
  9. Mark_Lester

    Istanbul Tünel, underground "funicular" railway

    How does this railway work ? From what I can work out, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCnel used to be a "cable car". There were two trains, fixed on the ends of cables, with a steam engine pulling the cable either way, and the two would balance each other (I'm sure there's a...
  10. Mark_Lester

    The Great Circular European Railway Challenge

    we are organising this http;//gcerc.wordpress.com Which is 15 nights (just down from 16) St Pancras Brussels Amsterdam Copenhagen Oslo Narvik Stockholm Berlin Warsaw Prague Vienna Bratislava Budapest Bucharest Istanbul Sofia Budapest Zagreb (well, just 20 mins, but they...

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