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I love the type of fraternizing that often occurs on bus trips. Especially on longer trips in exotic places. I remember one trip where the bus was involved in an almost accident. It all happened very quickly and I'm pretty sure most people on the bus were not even looking out of the window, or...

Many many moons ago in an earlier life of mine, I arrived for a business/work trip and I had a whole stack of brochures that I was intending to give to clients. The customs official took them out of my bag and asked what they were. So I explained. He started looking at one, and said this is...

St Pancras is an amazing place, that has retained many of its original features despite several refurbishments and at one point, threat of demolition. I remember it well in the 1980s when it was still a mix of past grandeur, decay and diesel fumes, with seemingly far too much space for the...

What would those countries be? I understand the Koreas are standard gauge, but isn't most of the rest of SE Asia narrow gauge, and Pakistian/India/Bangladesh etc broad gauge.

Another argument (from my perspective) is that Boston- Dublin is just about the shortest possible flight you can get, and I tend to dislike long flights in coach class, having once had an unpleasant experience in the middle seat of a 5 seat block on a San Francisco to Amsterdam flight, with...

Would the Salesforce station be deep enough to allow the line to continue in a tunnel under the bay? And where would such a tunnel go? It might be useful for commuter trains maybe, but I don't see any high speed inter city line going further in that direction, at least not until a lot of other...

The split level design with individual stairs up to every bedroom reminds me of the Austrian sleepers that have a similar design. Edit: I see Just-Thinking-51 beat me to that observation.

When in Holland I would definitely also recommend the Stoomtram Hoorn Medemblik, a steam powered tourist train running through some of the deepest farming land that you would otherwise probably never get to experience, authentically recreating the type of rural railroad lines that have...

The Crescent seems to have been cancelled on its southern portion quite frequently in recent years for track work, to the point that it almost stretches the definition of daily service.

I have a friend who did exactly that. This was just before Covid, in 2019, but i don't think that should have much effect. He travelled with a friend and said they were just fine. Once inside the country he said they could travel wherever they wanted and no questions were asked. He seems to...

I don't think there is any magical limit set in stone. But what happens is that as equipment ages, maintenance gets more expensive. This can be down to simple things such as parts no longer being available or the companies that supplied them no longer in business. It can be down to more...

Transformers are limited as to the lowest frequency they can carry. To push this limit down lower you need to add more iron to the core. There is nothing in physics that prevents you using a transformer at a higher frequency than the one for which it was designed. There is thus not actually...

Furthermore the transition from locomotives or power heads to EMUs means that large monolithic transformers are being replaced by smaller distributed units, which lessens the weight per axle issue. Germany is transitioning to an all EMU HS fleet, France is still sticking with power heads but...

It is sort of ironic that they fit bars over the windows so you can't lean out, but the doors can be opened with ease.

In Europe this practice continued until much more recently, and can still be encountered in several countries today. Even on tier 1 inter city trains.

I much prefer being able to reserve. I tend to prefer eating lunch late, and I wouldn't want to be refused service because all seats are taken in the last round.

As a small side note, for those wondering how to correctly pronounce the Welsh place names in the articles, the double d (dd) is pronounced rather like a th as in "those", maybe a little more forceful with the tongue at the front of the mouth touching the front teeth and pushing a little air...

It seems from the reports that this was yet another SPAD incident. Very sad.

would your ticket have been recognized, or would you buy a separate ticket?

I generally find a way to accommodate my bags in my roomette. I'm the type of person who likes to travel light and not take more gear than is strictly necessary. Typically I travel with only one backpack or suitcase, or for exceptionally long and complicated trips maybe both. So far I've always...