Best of Spain by train
Day trips from Madrid are easy thanks to Spains high-speed AVE train network.
Jeanine Barone uses Madrids excellent rail network to explore eight of the nations most impressive sights.When Im battling Madrids car-choke
Travelling in fine surrounds
Golden age ... luxury lodgings in the British Pullman, which departs Londons Victoria station.
Special reportKristie Kellahan nominates six picturesque rail journeys that combine history and grandeur.
On a roll in luxe-class
Panom Rung temple.
Ute Junker discovers adventure and indulgence go hand in hand on an epic journey by train from Bangkok to northern Thailand.Rugged is not the word that comes to mind when you look at the Eastern
A train journey with a (delicious) difference
Tasty travel ... the Sunlander train.
Courtney Trenwith struggles to rouse herself from relaxation on this indulgent foodie trip.Watching the glistening sun sink behind the Glasshouse Mountains, champagne flute in hand
The Great Rift, by rail
Elephants laze by a pond.
Alison Stewart boards the luxurious Pride of Africa for an epic train journey from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town.MY MISSIONARY explorer great-grandfather, James Stewart, canoed up the Zambez
A chants encounter
Casting a spell ... villagers on the lake at Ganvie.
Aboard a privately-owned train, Flora King explores a bewitching African nation from south to north.Guy Catherine is a broad-shouldered bear of a man. Top up? h
At warp speed on a rail odyssey
Trans-Europe express ... the Italian Mediterranean coast.
Train nut Steve McKenna spends a month - and travels 8000 kilometres - putting Europes network to the test.COME to Barcelona, said my friend, who, on a whi
Railway trips to dine for
Silver service … dining on trains harks back to a more glamorous era. Or not.
Ah, the romance of long-distance train travel ... Ute Junker shares her experiences of carriages and cabbages.
Given a choice between t
Highveld unveiled
Wide, open space ... an ostrich roams on a wildlife reserve.
Greg Baum passes desert and vineyards, wilderness and shanty towns on a train from Cape Town to Johannesburg.Banana-yellow suburban trains deposit drove
Travelling on Australias longest train journey
Staff on the Indian Pacific offer unobtrusive professionalism.
There is something mystical about the outback.
Coming into Broken Hill.
Rolling north in homage
Legendary ... The Ghan at a bridge crossing.
The transcontinental rail journey to Darwin doubles as an emotional Anzac tribute for John Borthwick.WERE way north of Port Augusta, on a trip within a trip. We had left Ade
Passage through India
Moveable feast ... flower offering at Varanasi.
Clover Stroud offers the inside track on the countrys finest rail journeysMaharajas Express
Offering what is arguably the most thrilling of Indias rail
Train from Spain preferred to plane
The Elipsos Trenhotel.
Lenny Ann Low sets out from Madrid on an overnight hotel journey across the countryside to France.Theres something deeply reassuring about a sleeper cabin on an overnight train. Close the door an
The iconic outback train trip
The Ghan Anzac Commemorative Trip 2012
The Ghan Anzac Commemorative Trip 2012
The Ghan Anzac Commemorative Trip 2012
The fun, without the Games
Country charms ... Warwick Csatle seen from the river.
Mark Juddery hops on the train to find a respite from the crowds in Londons satellite towns.Exciting as the London Olympics will be, its worth remembering tha
Fast track to a feast of delights
Vive la difference ... a shoemaker stands at his shop door in Lyon.
From village art galleries to grand museums, fine dining to fresh produce markets, Guy Wilkinson takes an epic train trip through France.Australi
The country where everything works
Like clockwork ... getting around Switzerland as a tourist is a breeze. We could learn something from them.
While waiting for a train the other day that didnt turn up, I had the chance to think about how things work –
Sometimes roughing it trumps a soft bed
Hard seat ... a young girl on a train in Vietnam.
HARD seat, the woman writes in block letters and pushes my notepad back across the counter. No, thats impossible. Soft sleeper, I scrawl below by way of correction
Ale by rail is the ticket
Best platforms ... Sheffield Tap has made the Sheffield station a tasty destination.
David Whitley discovers the station-pubs where boutique brews have beer lovers hoping for a train delay.The platform at Stalybridge s
The ends of the line
Children ride the rails.
Bypassing big cities for places barely touched by tourism, Stephen McClarence traverses the country by train.The train judders to a halt and jolts me out of deep sleep. I peer out of the c
