The Metro Rail Transport in Delhi is really to be praised due to its efficiency.
Gone are the bad days of limited modes of transport for the people of Delhi. The Delhi people only had the option of traveling in overcrowded DTC buses to their places of work everyday. Such …

While staying in Arlington, Virginia, we had several opportunities to use the Washington Metro Rail System for transportation. Overall it was an okay experience. Most of the time the cars were moderately packed with people so the ride was pretty comfortable. Although there seems to …

We were so excited for our train trip to visit the inlaws in Montana, we were to ride from Oregon to Montana and it would only take over night. We wouldn’t have to drive over the scary snow covered pass and all the dangerous roads and we would get …

There are many ways to travel between the United Kingdom and the European mainland, but probably one of the most comfortable ways is by taking the Eurostar. The high speed train (top speed 300km/h) takes you in just under 2 hours time from London St Pancars to Brussels Midi. …

The new Airport Link (Sky Train) in Bangkok just opened this year. It is very fast and will get you from the BKK Airport into the heart of the city in just 20 minutes with the express train. It runs above ground, above the highways (Sky Train). The …

Last summer, we took our 4 children across Canada by train and gave them an experience of a lifetime! I am no stranger to train travel, having traveled cross Canada over 20 times by rail, but mostly in my youth, the first time being when I was the same …

The Branson Scenic Railway takes passengers on a excursion that last close to 2 hours. You will travel through tunnels and over trestles. We passed the remains of old towns and we were treated to the most beautiful scenery. You travel approximately 40 miles but I’ll tell …

Droitwich Spa railway station serves the Worcestershire town of Droitwich, and lies on the junction of two lines: one from Birmingham Moor Street to Worcester via Bromsgrove, and one from Birmingham New Street to Worcester via Kidderminster. As such, it is a common spot for passengers to change trains …

This is a great site where you can get all the details of the trains running in India. India has the second largest railway network in the world. To capture all the data of the trains running in this extensive network and make it available on the net is …

This railway station located in the UK’s second city offers a great transport service for commuters in particular.
It’s a pretty small and intimate place, but since it’s revamp the place looks inviting and is very navigable with a great design and layout. There’s only a few actual platforms, but …

The Glacier Express travels a respectable journey of one-hundred seventy miles. Basically, it is a seven and one-half hour ride between Zermatt (a short distance from the Matterhorn) to classy St. Moritz in Switzerland.
The train’s windows are enormous allowing you to take in glacial scenery. …

Last year we took our eldest to a day out with Thomas the Tank Engine at the forest of Dean railway. This was an excellent day out that we all enjoyed. Kurt is a really big Thomas fan and loves to see Thomas at whenever the opportunity …

I just came back from perfect five days trip from Paris, France. I would like to share a few words about Paris metro. As I’m an active tourist, I would like to visit as more objects and museums, as possible. In that case is ready to spend some time …

I recently had to travel between Moscow and St Petersburg, and bought a ticket on Russian Railways’ Train #005, the Nikolaevsky Express. I chose it based on the time of arrival into St Petersburg, as I was catching a flight out the same day.
This train was amazing. I’ve done …

I just returned from the Ogilvie Transportation Center located at 500 W. Madison in Chicago, Illinois. This is the former Northwestern Train Station. The exterior of the building is massive and has lots of glass windows. I wasn’t expending too much on the inside, afterall, a …

If more people took the train, there would be more trains. I hear a lot of people complaining about the schedules and the service on the Long Island Railroad, which offers a lot of peak trains, however, when the trains are running empty, there are not going to be …

Three years ago I took a train from Chicago to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Like any good traveler I went online to check out what you could and could not do on the train.This was before,the all over, ban on smoking.Nothing anywhere said you couldn’t smoke.
My daughter-in-law and I were to leave …

This is the third year we have been in the Frequent Traveller Scheme with Eurotunnel and I am convinced we have saved a fortune. With so many people buying property abroad, particularly in France, this scheme must be extremely popular.
You buy ten single trips in advance for £399 and …

I hope I am right when I say that people with special needs are considered much more than they ever used to be. Certainly, I believe that the train companies are more aware and eager to accommodate people who need assistance when they travel. My particular experience is of …

As new international airports were developed in the countries in Southeast Asia region, rail links between the Cities and the airports became important components. One City which had done a marvellous job was Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
When I travelled to Kuala Lumpur in earlier years, I used to take a …

One of the easiest ways to get around Washington, DC is to travel via the subway trains. It is one of the most common forms of public transportations being used in large cities today. They have stations every couple of blocks which makes for less walking. You just have …

Hua Lamphong is Bangkok’s main railway station. All tracks leading to north, northeast, and south, originate from here. To reach this place, take a subway (Bang Sue - Hua Lamphong line) and get off at Hua Lamphong. Exit from subway station, walk a little to the north and you …

I have ridden the Amtrak Surfliner route, which runs from around Lompoc, California, down to the San Diego area, many times in the past six to seven years. My experience, overall, has been fairly positive, although the route is frequently over-booked, the conductors occasionally rude, and the ticketing system …

Airlines are terrible right? In what other industry can you be EXPECTED to be late EVERY TIME and get away with it? Customer service and reliability have slowly seeped out of the airline industry, and is nowhere to be found. Along with this, flight costs have …

The Southern Railways form a part of the Indian Railways which ranks among top 10 railways of the world.I would like to mention about Intercity Express train which serves as the transportation medium for lacs of people in South India.I am frequent traveler …

A few years ago, I decided to do the Trans-Siberian, and have only now just got around to actually travelling. I decided to do my journey in four different sections - Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk, Irkutsk to Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg to Moscow and Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
I was pleasantly surprised …

The Tri-Rail system of South Florida is thought to be one of the more popular and most used forms of transportation on the Atlantic coast of the Florida. The train itself has stop offs that have city buses pick up at the stations for people who are traveling inside …

This is the main railway station in Jakarta. From here passengers can take a ride within Greater Jakarta as well as to other main cities in Jawa Island. The station consists of three levels. Ground floor accommodates ticketing offices, and kiosks selling various items from newspapers, soft drinks, to …

If you are fortunate enough to find time to visit Scotland during your summer vacation, you may decide to visit the Highlands while you are there. Now Scotland is divided into the Highlands and the Lowlands. The Highlands aren’t necessarily all high and the Lowlands aren’t necessarily all low. …

I have used Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station many times as I like going shopping in various big cities round the country, like Birmingham, Manchester and London. Stoke Station is an old Victorian looking station, slightly off the beaten track in Stoke-on-Trent but there is a good bus service to …

I am reviewing Eurotunnel le shuttle, the train link between the UK and France. Eurotunnel is a 20 mile under sea tunnel that le shuttle trains use to carry cars and passengers onto the continent from the UK.
I have used this service a number of times and can …

Old Hill is a small railway station which serves the suburb of Old Hill, near Cradley Heath in the English West Midlands. Train services from this station are provided by London Midland, and trains are frequent towards Birmingham Moor Street in one direction, and towards Stourbridge Junction in the …

My experience on the Metrolink trains, despite the still fairly recent, tragic accident that killed many, has been relatively positive. The trains are more comfortable and clean than light rail trains such as the Metro Blue Line, and the service itself is greatly needed in the Greater Los Angeles …

When I was younger my family and I used to drive to Colorado every summer. One summer we stopped in Durango, Colorado and decided to take the train from Durango to Silverton. It’s a famous railroad and historic so you get to experience what it was like back in …

I traveled for the first time on Amtrak from Orlando to Boston. I was noticeably 6 months pregnant at the time and was traveling alone with one large suitcase. I didn’t know at the time that trains had a luggage check in available.
When my husband …

I hate to go to or from foreign airports those have no rail transportation. It is simply because MRT or subway has clear station names, on time, and relatively cheap compared to other kinds of land transportation. When I visited Taipei for the first time in 2013, I took expensive …

For those living in Seoul, the subway is something they are more than likely to be quite well acquainted with. For anyone who is considering a visit to South Korea’s capital, they may rest assured that it is one of the better public transport networks possessed by any large city. …

One of the things about New York which makes it different from any state in the union is the fact that you do not need a car to get around the city. This is a result of the great transportation train system which offers service all around New York. …

I took the MTR quite often as humans drew breath while I was in Hong Kong. People in HK are basically ‘crippled’ without a car, thus the main transportation people rely on are taxis, buses, but most of all the MTR (and also the KCR) because it is fast …

Of the three major railway stations in Birmingham, Snow Hill is perhaps the least impressive. Situated as it is under a tower block and with no interesting architecture at all, I try hard to avoid it when I can, as it is often cold, dark and windy. Trains which …

I recently had a train ride on the Dean Forest Railway, which is a small railway (on about ten miles of track) operated mainly by enthusiasts and offering train rides mainly to tourists and day-trippers in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. I loved riding in the old …

Blakedown railway station serves the prosperous commuter village of Blakedown in Worcestershire, which lies between Hagley and Kidderminster. It is served mostly by London Midland trains to Worcester, Kidderminster and Birmingham, although a few Chiltern Railways trains also stop here. Services are not as frequent as at most other …

Indian raiways is the fourth largest network of railways in the world. In fact it is the main transport system available to all people.Though the trai speed average to amaximum of 80/90 km per hour yet the travel is made comfortable in every way. There are a number of …

I took this train from St. Petersburg to Moscow and loved it. I’d been on other trains in the former Soviet Union, but this one was by far the most comfortable. Leaving late at night from St. Petersburg and arriving around 8 in the morning in Moscow, …

Mahabodhi Express runs between New Delhi and Gaya. Since I am residing in Delhi and my home is in Gaya, I travel regularly by this train. This is the considered as the best train between these two stations.
The time that this train took to complete its journey is sixteen …

My family joined my brother’s family on a vacationing Branson Mo. We have children ranging from the age of 5 years old to 26 yrs old with us so we had to find things that would make everyone happy. We drove around twenty minutes to get to the …

Approximately once per month, I ride Amtrak from Richmond, Virginia to Washington D.C. or vice versa. My experiences on Amtrak have always been favorable, and I see it as a cheap alternative to fighting the rush hour traffic on Interstate 95.
The trip is approximately two hours in length, …

We all know that traveling to Europe is expensive. On my last trip to Europe, I tagged along my mom and my sister. Expenses have been tripled so I wanted to make the best of our trip with the least expenses. Getting a cheap pass to travel to as …

One has a common impression that all national capitals come up with good transit stations. However my experience with the New Delhi (capital of India) Railways Station was quiet baffeling as well as disapointing .
I was expecting a very plush Railway Station would greet me …

To travel around in Singapore, Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT) is a quick, easy and economical way to travel. I have stayed in Singapore for about four years now and I had used MRT more compared to buses. The reason is that it is …