Here’s what impressed me about my three train rides today: the slow trains here are fast and the fast trains are really fast. When Matthew Foy of Railbookers in London...
Officials in London and Berlin have announced that Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway, will be starting 200 mile-per-hour service linking the two capital cities. Running time will be 4.5...
The Japanese started it all back in the 60s when they introduced the first so-called bullet trains, the shinkansen. The French followed with their TGV, the abbreviation for train à grand...
I came across the following quotation from Mark Twain the other day: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be...