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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The very mention of the word Arlberg evokes memories of a belle époque of continental rail travel. The Arlberg is the rugged mountain region which separates Austria’s westernmost province, Vorarlberg, ...

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.

This journey for Europe by Rail retraces a pilgrimage of yesteryear – but one which remains enduringly popular with residents of Budapest today. It is a mark of Hungarians’ continuing affection for ...

This route, first introduced into Europe by Rail in 2022, links the two great cities of Habsburg power: Budapest and Vienna. In the final phase of the Habsburg Empire, these two cities were the twin ...