Land reform in Schäftersheim
Those houses in the photo are already in Schäftersheim, so it’s not far from Weikersheim — unless you insist on going by car, in which case you have to turn Read More …
Tag: Train travel
Trains to Weikersheim
The Tauber Valley is served by a single-track non-electrified railway line. Aside from local trains there are Regional Express trains from Aschaffenburg several times a day, and also a few Read More …
An opera singer’s train station
This railway station was built in 1913 as the main station of the then-booming industrial city of Barmen, which had not yet been incorporated into the city of Wuppertal. The Read More …
To Kiel by train
On a typical day there are three direct InterCityExpress (ICE) trains from Frankfurt to Kiel, but none of these left at a time that was convenient for me, so I Read More …
To Besançon by train
Like a number of other medium-sized French cities (such as Reims and Avignon, for example), Besançon has two railway stations: the traditional one near the center of town and a Read More …
The S6 to Bad Wildbad
Wildbad has had a railway line since 1869, when the Enz Valley Railway was built to bring the rich and the powerful up from Pforzheim to the Wildbad spa. In Read More …
To and from Toulouse by train
My train from Paris to Toulouse was a TGV (= Train of Great Speed), leaving the station Paris-Montparnasse at 12:28 and arriving Toulouse-Matabiau five and a half hours later, at Read More …
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 …