Guillemins Railway Station
A good way to start a conversation in Liège, Belgium, is to ask people what they think of the new Guillemins Railway Station. The answers I got typically started: “Well, Read More …
Tag: Train travel
Paris to Massy on the RER B line
The RER B line is a regional rapid transit line that cuts through Paris in tunnels from north to south, connecting the northern and southern suburbs and also two major Read More …
A journey to Reims
The characters in Rossini’s opera Il viaggio a Reims never do get to Reims, and for a few minutes I thought I wasn’t going to get there either, because my Read More …
TGV to Strasbourg
They had a brass band on platform 4 of the Gare de l’Est (East Station) in Paris on the morning of June 10, 2007, to give us all a big Read More …
By train to Lille
My plan was that I would take a German InterCityExpress train (ICE) from Frankfurt by way of Cologne to Brussels, change at Brussels North Station for Kortrijk and then change Read More …
Eleven times as marvelous?
Germany’s largest opera house was built in the 1990s on the site of an old railway station, incorporating the station’s elaborate entrance hall and front façade. The station itself had Read More …
Transportation to and within Braunschweig
Since April 1977, steam locomotive 01 1063 has been on display in front of the main railroad station in Braunschweig. This locomotive was in active use on the German railways Read More …
By bicycle or train to Friedrichsdorf
There are signposted bicycle routes leading to Friedrichsdorf from all directions, though when I went through Bad Homburg I had some trouble finding my way because either one sign was Read More …
By train to Toulon
Unlike Victor Hugo, who traveled from Marseille to Toulon by stagecoach in 1839, I came by train. His excuse was that the railroad didn’t even reach Toulon until twenty years Read More …
By train to Avignon
The train station Gare Avignon TGV was opened in 2001 on the outskirts of Avignon as part of the new LGV Méditerranée, the high-speed railway line from Lyon to Marseille. Read More …