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

Between Berlin and Lviv, Route 48 takes in two particularly fine Polish cities, Poznań and Kraków – both with magnificent central squares. Not to mention the capital Warsaw too. Like every route in ...

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 ...

This is a truly amazing Swiss rail journey. It runs through high mountain scenery from the Engadine to the Valais. It takes in valleys whose water drain down towards the Black Sea, and it touches the ...

This is a journey which ventures past the point where most rail travellers visiting Italy turn round and head back home. It gives a taste of the fiery harsh lands of Basilicata and it takes in a great ...

This journey links two places which were both premier-league city-states. There were times when Venice and Athens wielded great influence through maritime power. For this completely new route for ...

Be warned! One can overdose on culture. It’s not compulsory to see every painting in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, nor is it necessary to explore every back alley in Siena. A little goes a long way ...

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 is a tremendous journey over one of Europe’s first mountain rail routes and links two very fine cities: Vienna and Trieste. The Semmering Railway opened in 1854. In 1998, it was inscribed on ...

In our opinion, this is one of the finest one-day train journeys in Switzerland, certainly on a par with the much-vaunted Glacier Express from St Moritz to Zermatt (the route of which is described in ...

This route is a very useful fast hop south over the Alps from southern Germany to Italian sunshine. But it is also worth doing in its own right for Route 38 packs in an astonishing variety of scenery.

The Gotthard is Switzerland. And Switzerland is the Gotthard. The mountain is intimately linked to Swiss national identity. Swiss self-awareness, be it on a social or a political level, is ...