Railway Reviews
indianrail.gov.in
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 …
Mahabodhi Express
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 …
Long Island Railroad
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 …
Indian Railways,Travelling by Indian Railways
Hey, this review is mainly for you people from outside India, who are coming to India for vacations and travelling. In India, Indian Railways is the most economical and comfortable way to travel long distances without coughing up large money for airlines. Anyways the coverage of Airline services are …
NJ Transit
Normally NJ Transit is on top or on top of making announcements about a train being late. The Conductor and ticket agents are rather friendly and helpful also. Sometimes I feel like I am their therapist though because they will tell me about all the complains they have about …
Metropolitan Line London Underground
To get into the centre of London I often use the Metropolitan Line service which runs from Amersham to Aldergate. I only travel as far as Baker Street which is one of the main interchange stations on the network as you can swap on to a number of …
Amtrak Auto Train
The Amtrak Auto Train offers the rider a way to transport both themselves and their vehicle from Virginia to Florida. Many families traveling to Disney World take this option to save them from driving.
The idea is you purchase a ticket for yourself and your car. You can choose to …
Shatabdi Express New Delhi to Bhopal
Recently I went Bhopal from New Delhi by Shatabdi Express. This was my first journey by this train. The journey becomes one of the most comfortable journeys that I ever took in India.
The train is the fastest train in India. I enjoyed the scorching speed that it took from …
Amtrack to New York City
Not many people who travel do their traveling by train anymore. I personally think it’s a wonderful way to travel. It may take longer then flying and you can’t get off when you want to, like in a car, but being on a train has a special kind of …
Eurail
I had never heard about Eurail, Europe’s high speed train which travels through and between over 20 countries, before my first visit to Europe 6 years ago; now, I travel on it whenever I possibly can. It is fast, convenient, inexpensive and can actually be a learning experience in …
Amtrak Trains
I recently took an Amtrak train for a cross-country trip from New Mexico to Michigan, and it was an experience. The best part about traveling by train is that one can actually enjoy the scenery on the trip, because the traveler doesn’t have to worry about driving. The other …
Metrolink
I needed to go to Los Angeles on a business trip and decided to try riding the train for the first time in my life. After spending about 15 minutes driving around and around the San Bernardino Metrolink Depot trying to find a parking spot, I finally parked …
Mass Rapid Transit ( SMRT)
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 …
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Pickering Railway Station is situated just off the A170 between Scarborough and Thirsk and lies just off of the A169, 9 miles from Malton and the A64. Although parking is available at all of the stations along the North Yorkshire Railway, it is advisable to make contingency plans, the …
Foregate Street railway station, Worcester, England
Worcester Foregate Street is one of two railway stations in Worcester, the other being Shrub Hill. I would recommend that you go to Shrub Hill only if travelling on long-distance trains, for example to Bristol, and stick to Foregate Street for local services. This is because Foregate Street station …
Branson Scenic Railway
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 …
Italy FN
Wow, today was quite an awkward day. I bought a train ticket to go from Laveno to Milan on the FN train system. Now apart from the fact that it is about 70 km distance and that the train takes roughly 2+ hours to get to destination, regardless of …
STIB Metro Brussels
Moving around in Brussels city using its metro can be the quickest method of getting from one point to another. I was always afraid of taking public transport because I was more scared that I would be lost more than anything else. In the end, I thought I could …
Japan Bullet Train
I have travelled to and in many countries on my buisness and holiday trips. And, when travelling in the countries abroad, I had taken airplanes, busses, and trains, depending on the time I had, places I wanted to visit, and the schedules.
One of the most exciting travel in …
Amtrak Train Service
I use to live in Chicago, but I moved down state to a small town called Vandalia, now I am about 300 miles from the big city. I enjoy the small town living, but I also miss my family in Chicago and that all around city lifestyle. I use …
Metro North Rail Road (New York)
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. …
Ferrovie Statali Italiane
Yesterday I had to travel to Verona, Italy for work. On average the car ride takes around 6 hours when there is a little bit of traffic. I took the Ferrovie Statali and for the first time in a long while not only where they on time at the …
Stourbridge Town railway station
Stourbridge Town railway station is a small station near the centre of the town of Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England. It is reached by means of a very short branch line - just three quarters of a mile long - from the considerably larger station at Stourbridge …
Amtrak East Coast
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, …
Hua Lamphong Railway Station, Bangkok
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 …
The Edinburgh to Inverness Train in Scotland
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. …
Birmingham New Street railway station
Birmingham New Street is one of the busiest railway stations in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, it is also one of the worst in some regards. There are plans to replace it with a more modern station in the next few years, but until then passengers have to endure a …
IRCTC
Recently I was planning to come to my hometown from New Delhi (India). As I took the decision hurriedly I didn’t have much time to buy the ticket from the counter. In that situation I decided to buy the ticket online from IRCTC website.
The entire procedure was quite simple. …
Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Bristol Temple Meads railway station is a major station, serving the large city of Bristol in south-west England. It is a very historic station, having existed since the first half of the nineteenth century and having been designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself, although the current station building is …
The TGV Train from Paris to Agde
This was an exciting journey as I had never been on the TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse/High Speed Train) before. Whereas Great Britain has had a rather fraught relationship with trains since Beeching closed great swathes of the network down in the early 1960 and Thatcher concentrated on …
Waverley Station, Edinburgh
It is said to be the seventh-largest railway station in the world, but I find that hard to believe. Once, some three hundred years ago, it was a botanical garden growing all kinds of medicinal herbs, some of which would probably be illegal nowadays! It has had chequered …
National Express Coach Service
On quite a few occasions I had to travel from London to Nottingham and back again. National Express has served me with the best, affordable and most comfortable cross country coach rides. Bearing in mind that the journey from London to Nottingham is basically over 3 hours in duration, …
Metro Railway Transit
Have you ever been in Metro Manila Philippines? Then you would know the legendary traffic jam in Edsa, one of the major thoroughfares in Metro Manila. Thank goodness that the Philippine government have built the Metro Railway Transit System or MRT for short. MRT is an electric powered railway …
Gambir Railway Station
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 …
Odakyu train from Tokyo to Hakone
Mount Fuji is very famous in Japan. This pushes me to find a timeslot to pay a visit to Fuji-san (as addressed by the Japanese) when I was in Tokyo. Mount Fuji can be explored through a number of ways and locations. I do not like to climb a …
Hong Kong Transportation System
The Mass Transport Railway in Hong Kong is one of the most efficient transportation systems in the world. It is a network of underground railroad that carries over 2.4 million people a day. When I visited Hong Kong, I frequently used the MTR to travel around the …
Conway Scenic Railroad
New Hampshire has some of the most beautiful scenery in the country and one of the best ways to see it is on the Conway Scenic Railroad `Rt. 16, North Conway, New Hampshire 03860. They take you on a trip back in time to when steam locomotives …
Munich S-Bahn MRT
When we come to Munich, especially through the air transportation, we will use S-Bahn train from the Munich Airport to reach the city. We will also used S-Bahn train in the inner city to take us to certain destination by going to certain S-Bahn station. S-Bahn is a modern …
Metro Goldline lightrail train
Awhile back, I went to work in Pasadena, CA as an Au Pair (nanny) for a year. This arrangement meant that there was a car provided for me by the family I was staying with, but it was only for work purposes (such as picking up kids from …
Blakedown railway station
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 …
Kochuveli Express
People travel from Bangalore to Trivandrum have multiple trains to travel. When i for the first time in the month of October in 2010 went to the Indian Railways reservation counter to book the tickets for trivandrum i actually did not get the reservation even in tatkal scheme(instant reservation …
Amtrak
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 …
Amtrak Surfliner Route in Southern California
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 …
Eurostar London - Brussel
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. …
Meteor Garden
Hana Yori Dango, an Anime that has become a Hit in all of Asia by the name of Meteor Garden. Who would have forgotten all the 4 wonderful boys of the Meteor Garden, called the F4? Barbie Hsu, the lead character playing Shan Cai also is a wonder! She …
Dean Forest Railway
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 …
Subway train Washington
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 …
Tri-Rail
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 …
Eurotunnel (Uk - France link)
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 …
Rajdhani Express
Rajdhani Express is considered as the best train in India. I travel regularly through this train if there is availability of berth for reservation. However, my recent trip by this train from New Delhi to Ranchi was pathetic and which makes me doubt about the capability of this train …
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