Don’t ask me how they calculated this - and I wouldn’t have assumed a minicab to the airport - but basic premise often true: Factor in bag fees & travel to/from airports, truth different from stereotypical media comparisons of cheapest air fare with most expensive rail fare.

There was a time when trains would be diverted via the Settle-Carlisle Railway railway instead of buses along the M6. Passengers travelling on walk on #offpeak and #anytime tickets on many long distance routes from southern English/Midlands can opt to travel via Leeds/Settle-Carlisle

To Spain by sea? Brittany Ferries operate up to 5 sailings to Spain each week and I've now improved the Seat61 ferry-to-Spain page. Photos of the journey experience on the new ships will appear after my trip on the 42,000 ton Santoña next month. seat61.com/ferry-to-spain…

Jacques Cooper, the designer of the original TGV has died. The rail world owes him so much. Merci Jacques pour ces trains magnifiques.
#HighSpeedRail
#history

Eurostar-formerly-Thalys staff apparently failing to comply with Railteam HOTNAT provisions. Not a good look…

Well done Lumo !

It’s an Intercity 125, Jim. But not as we know it…

Stena Line used to sell Dutch Railways day tickets on board their Harwich-Hoek ferries. Apparently this wasn’t a ‘first’!

Oh no, another Sunday rabbit hole opens up. Rhyming slang 'Donkey's ears' for 'Years'? Length of a donkey's ears? From a rhyme, 'Years and years and donkey's ears'?

An excellent and definitive map of the Japanese network (if my youngest watches any more Bungo Stray Dogs: Tales of the Lost they'll be able to read it to me!)

Hard to beat a Hungarian restaurant car! This one’s on the morning Budapest to Warsaw express..

Well that was a surprise! AVE booked...