Stuttgart Central Station (Hauptbahnhof)
In 2004 I posted a ‘tip’ on the now-defunct website VirtualTourist about the central railroad station in Stuttgart. Little did I know, at the time, that the fate of this Read More …
Tag: Train travel
Antwerp Centraal Station
This imposing train station was built from 1895 to 1905 as a terminus station, meaning that all the tracks ended here. The station features a huge dome, which aside from Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …