Train Trips

Travelogues and planning tips for long-distance train trips and rail tours

Train du Desert

Take a desert-defying challenge … Ocean going to Atlantic Canada … Literary approaches

26 hours on a Saharan freight train ... How to take an epic train trip through Eastern Canada ... Six literary rail journeys to recreate: from Moscow to Mallaig
Derry-Londonderry-Coleraine train

Fairy-tale journeys through Ireland … On a train for climate change … Views Kerouac...

Five fairy-tale train journeys through Ireland ... Four days on a train for climate change ... Views you don’t get on the freeway – across America by train
The Vivek Express

Making India’s longest journey … Crossing Australia’s Outback … Accessing Amtrak’s Auto Train

On board the Vivek Express, India's longest train journey ... Catch the Ghan train through Australia's Outback ... An accessible-travel insider documents her trip on the world’s longest passenger train
Blue Danube train

Express to Europe’s edge … Climbing to Bergen … Chasing history in the...

Romanian castles and Turkish mosques give journey a storybook feel ... Oslo to Bergen: Europe’s best train journey? ... A bullet train journey across Uzbekistan
Young man aboard Tazara train

Tracking Tanzania to Zambia … Canada’s best-hidden rail trip … SoCal’s cities by train

The great train safari from Tanzania to Zambia ... Rail makes getting to B.C.'s remote Seton Portage an epic adventure ... Glitz, glamour and great views doing three SoCal cities by train
Amtrak Silver Meteor in Orlando.

James Bond’s favorite train … Maritimes to Montréal … World’s cheapest journeys

From New York to Miami on James Bond's favorite train ... Get a view of the Maritimes on this overnight train trip from Halifax to Montreal ... The Ten Cheapest Train Journeys You Can Take Around The World
Train du Desert

Braving Mauritania’s Sahara … Glimpsing Russia’s soul … Catching a Scottish vibe

An exhilarating train journey across the Sahara ... Horrors and joys of third-class train travel in Russia ... London to Glasgow on the Caledonian Sleeper train
Couple riding in the Skyline Car Lounge aboard VIA Rail's Canadian.

Traveling the Canadian way … Taking India’s tea line … Reaching for Skye

On Canada’s Via Rail, a return to the older — and let’s be honest, better — way of traveling ... Darjeeling Hill Railway History in motion ... What it’s like to get the train from London to Skye
Qinghai–Tibet railway train

Rolling from Mongolia to Tibet … British Columbia slowly … Israel hopping by rail

Asia: Mongolia to Tibet by train ... Canada: Riding the Sweet, But So Slow, Skeena Train ... 11 delightful day trips on the Israel Railways train
The Train de l'Ardeche steams through the gorges of Ardeche in Southeastern France's Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Slow tracking in France … All around Yangon … Rolling with Instagram

Slow tracking in France ... All around Yangon ... Rolling with Instagram

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