The rail journey from Hamburg to Budapest can be completed in a long day. The sole direct service between the two cities ...

Route 34 in Europe by Rail starts with an overnight journey through Hungary into Romania. There we’ll make time for three ...

Let’s not beat about the bush. The main rail route linking Cologne with Berlin will hardly inspire you with fine scenery. A sleek ICE train leaves Cologne Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) hourly for the German ...

This long journey from Berlin to Bavaria and on across the Austrian border to Salzburg takes in some very fine German cities (including Leipzig, Weimar and Munich) and some decent countryside – of ...

Our journey commences in northern Sweden and ends in Stockholm, but actually the bulk of the rail travel on this wonderful journey is through Finland. There’s more than city streets on this fine trip: ...

Route 26 makes the perfect introduction to southern Scandinavia. Our journey runs up Jutland before we hop on a ferry across the Skagerrak to Norway for a train journey through the hills to Oslo. The ...

The train journey from Geneva to Barcelona is one of the finest excursions in this volume. It is a good practical way of covering a lot of ground, but it also takes in a wonderful medley of landscapes ...

This long route from Copenhagen to Bergen via Oslo is a journey of extremely varied character. It starts with a tame prelude but develops into a great symphony of lakes, snowfields and mountains.

Let’s go in search of the red brick trail. This route links a number of cities that draw on a common architectural tradition, often known by the German name Backsteingotik (brick Gothic architecture).

While we normally encourage travellers to linger over journeys and stop off along the way, the very character of this route suggests a different strategy. The overnight journey to Swedish Lapland is ...

One of the longer journeys in this book, this route is rich in maritime character. Most of the cities along the way have developed through sea trade or their links with the sea, although none is ...

Each new edition of the European Rail Timetable (ERT) includes a really useful section called Newslines. Compiled each month by ERT editor Chris Woodcock, Newslines highlights significant new ...