We chanced this week on a timetable for European night trains in 1999. So it’s interesting to look back and see which trains ...

Let’s go in search of the red brick trail. This route links a number of cities that draw on a common architectural tradition, ...

Our journey commences in northern Sweden and ends in Stockholm, but actually the bulk of the rail travel on this wonderful ...

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 ...

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.

The railway is a fine way to take the pulse of Portugal and this route is designed to do just that. Route 24 is the sole journey in this book which crosses the Spanish-Portuguese border, but it is not ...

If you follow just one Norwegian route in this book, make it this journey from Oslo to beyond the Arctic Circle. This long ride north nicely reveals the variety and scale of Norwegian landscapes. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

This route takes in several glorious north Italian cities from Genoa in the west to Venice in the east – a veritable feast of art and architecture, along the way swapping the Mediterranean for the ...