Well, to answer your burning train-or-ferry travel-related questions, at least! Coming up on May 24...

Applications for the European Rail Tourism Awards 2024 are now open!

Well, I made it onto ITV's 'On Assignment' last night, complete with a rather nice (and entirely editorially-justified) vin de pays d'Oc. Watch it at itv.com/watch/on-assig…, the European Sleeper part starts at 00:21:55.

Seems something’s brewing in Kenya, on the Nairobi-Mombasa route…

Isn’t that just what happens to a Pacer if you apply that much power?

Still time to join this event at 18:30 tonight...

A proper meal on a British train, or more specifically, Welsh: This is Trafnidiaeth Cymru Trenau Transport for Wales Rail's 12:30 Manchester-Cardiff service with 1st class dining and no, I've not yet had a chance to try it myself!

SLEEPER TRAINS ARE BACK

Tuesday 10.45pm ITV1

Join ITV On Assignment as we travel on the inaugural Brussels to Prague sleeper train and find out what’s behind the night train renaissance in Europe.

Features The Man in Seat 61, European Sleeper, České dráhy and more!

Oooh. There's been another cancellation...

*falls off chair in amazement*. So they have, excellent news. We now need the likes of Rail Europe & thetrainline europe to build on this!

The 2016 Brexit referendum result not only gave us Brexit, it allowed the hard right to take over the Conservative Party from within. The party of Dr Jekyll became the party of Mr Hyde - in a 2-party FPTP system that’s been catastrophic. Took a while for electorate to realise!

Question for those with inside info on Renfe: Is there any point in checking out the Barcelona-France AVE-S100 or is complete replacement with S106 Avril so imminent there’s really not point, i.e. will any S100 remain on the French routes in 2025?

The sleeper train ‘Prietenia’, Moldova’s link with the rest of Europe, Chisinau-Bucharest. With obligatory change of bogies at the border, 5’ gauge to standard.

Apologies to Mrs 61 who got her coffee late this morning, due to a delay with the Stockholm-Berlin sleeper…
(It now arrives 12:12 at Gesundbrunnen on Sundays so had to rewrite the Seat61 Sweden, Finland & Trains from Stockholm pages)