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The Man in Seat 61

@seatsixtyone

1 year

Meanwhile, on Twitter...

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@seatsixtyone

8 months

IT’S ITALY’S MOST EPIC SLEEPER TRAIN: Over 950 miles from Milan to Palermo, it’s a train that goes onto a boat, and a private single-bed sleeper cost me all of €84.90. I can resist anything except temptation…

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

The Dutch press see it like it is...

Tjeerd Royaards

@Royaards

5 years

Boris continues to push for Brexit.

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

How's it going chaps, sorted it yet?

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

The Nightjet reveal event begins at 10, and I’m here. Must be Europe’s first 230km/h sleeper train? #excited ? Nope, make that #hoppingupanddownexcited .

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@seatsixtyone

8 months

MILAN TO LONDON BY TRAIN in a day. First up, carefully avoiding August landslides, the 08:20 EuroCity from Milan Centrale to Geneva…

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

So today I’m going from London to Berlin by Eurostar & the inaugural eastbound @EuropeanSlpr . Sorry, did I say Berlin? Hell no! I’m going to POLAND. For the weekend. By train. #youknowitmakessense

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

The best and most succinct summary I've yet seen.

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@seatsixtyone

10 months

What??!! Trying to book a Eurostar in October, vast majority of seats still unbooked, but all seat 61s already gone? Guess I’ve only myself to blame…

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

Weird. I’m in a pub with an inverse menu, of things you *can’t* have. (Shh, nobody mention #Brexit …)

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

For those yet to see it: Europe's sleeper trains, mapped...

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

Am I the only person who never closes a browser window showing the final booking confirmation page before I see that the confirmation email has definitely arrived in my inbox?

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

LUMO IS GO! FirstGroup's new lo-cost London-Edinburgh trains will take on easyJet & Ryanair at their own game starting 25 October, 6 times less CO2 than a flight with fares from £14.90 - 60% of fares will be £30 or less. I'm going to enjoy watching this - pass the popcorn...

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

ZERMATT TO LONDON! 09:13 from Zermatt, lunch in Lausanne, dinner in Paris, London St Pancras 22:30…

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

This tweet's aged well...

Ricky Gervais

@rickygervais

8 years

The fact that there are warnings like "Do not drink" on bottles of bleach makes me realise that Donald Trump can become president.

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

Now on Seat 61! All about the new (London-) Brussels/Amsterdam-Berlin sleeper train that will start running on 25 May 2023: Timetable, prices, on board facilities, bikes & pets...

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

About to experience one of my all-time favourite journeys (again!), London Euston to Ft William on the @CalSleeper . IMHO, the best train in Britain. #gifted .

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@seatsixtyone

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LONDON-PRAGUE EXPRESS: Great to at @StPancrasInt again, one of the world’s great stations. Today’s agenda? Leave London on the 13:01 Eurostar, join the inaugural Brussels-Prague @EuropeanSlpr , arrive Prague 10:56 tomorrow morning.

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@seatsixtyone

6 years

@davidschneider I'll just leave this here...

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

European Sleeper confirmed this morning that their Brussels/Amsterdam to Berlin overnight train will be extended to Dresden & Prague from 25 March. London to Prague with 1 easy same-station change in Brussels!

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@seatsixtyone

6 months

I vote we make this so-called Home Secretary sleep rough *without* a tent in London in November for as many nights as it takes for her to change her mind...

Peter Foster

@pmdfoster

6 months

🚨NEW. Suella Braverman pushes to restrict tents for rough sleepers, and proposes making it a civil office for charities to give tents to homeless via @FT with ⁦ @LOS_Fisher ⁩

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

Another snippet of news: Since Barcelona-Madrid was opened up to competition, passenger numbers are up 50% and fares down by 49% compared to pre-pandemic figures. 3.5 operators now compete on this route*

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@seatsixtyone

2 months

Not again! HS2 is not a pot of money you can reallocate. It’s borrowing against the returns from running trains on it. It’s a long term strategic investment, cancelled for short-term crowd pleasers.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 months

The money saved by scrapping the northern leg of HS2 will be given to Northern England and the Midlands for local transport. Transport secretary @Mark_J_Harper says "this is way more money than these councils have had before". 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

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@seatsixtyone

5 months

The railways are effectively renationalised. But we'll carry on paying 20 different operators to maintain 20 different web developer teams running 20 different websites. Surely *one* area where a saving might result in an actual improvement...

Rail Business UK

@RailBusinessUK

5 months

The government has dropped plans to create a centralised Great British Railways online rail ticket retailer, the Department for Transport has confirmed

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

And now for the greatest innovation on these new sleeper trains: The minisuites, individual privacy at couchette prices.

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

If brexit were stopped, some people would be seriously upset. Fortunately there’s only 68 of them and they all fit into this car park.

Kate Hoey

@CatharineHoey

5 years

Pleased to join with @andreajenkyns on #MarchToLeave

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@seatsixtyone

5 months

You can’t transfer capex - long term capital investment - to short term revenue expenditure, for maintenance that should have been done anyway, unless you’re completely incompetent.

Mark Harper

@Mark_J_Harper

5 months

We're announcing how London's boroughs will benefit from £235m of HS2 savings - part of the biggest-ever funding uplift for local road improvements. Labour don't have a plan to improve our roads, @Conservatives do - and we're delivering 👇

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

Demonising a minority group is a classic far right distraction technique. Used successfully in 1930s Germany and now being used here. Don’t be taken in.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

1 year

If you come to the UK illegally: ➡️ You can’t claim asylum ➡️ You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections ➡️ You can’t make spurious human rights claims ➡️ You can’t stay

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@seatsixtyone

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It's confirmed! I'll be on board @EuropeanSlpr 's inaugural train from Brussels to Prague on Monday: Leave London by Eurostar at 13:01, change in Brussels onto the European Sleeper arriving Prague at 10:56 next morning. Excited? I think I might be...

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@seatsixtyone

6 years

These arrived for our kids yesterday, a great early Christmas present: The continued right to live, work & study across 27 sovereign nations all across our own continent. Wouldn’t it be great if UK passports also gave people this right?

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

Apologies for being slow yesterday. A thing happened: My Facebook post about the new Nightjet trains accidentally reached 9.4 million people. Seat61 users up 120%, all looking at the new Nightjet page .

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@seatsixtyone

9 months

@gwestr @jedwinmok Paris-Stuttgart 3h09 by high-speed train from €39.90. Paris-Frankfurt 3h49 by high-speed train from €39.90. Paris-Cologne 3h09 by high-speed train from €35. Centre to centre. Flights take 4h in total incl travel to airports & lengthy checkin, generating 10x the CO2 emissions.

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

"Trains, not planes, are increasingly business travellers' preferred choice in Europe. Higher airfares and lower carbon emissions behind a significant shift to trains."

Trains, Not Planes, Are Increasingly Business Travelers' Preferred Choice in Europe

A growing number of businesses are opting for rail travel across Europe, as higher airfares push more employees to trains rather than planes.

skift.com

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

It's almost a year since I rode the inaugural @LumoTravel lo-cost train between London & Edinburgh with fares from £14.90. I said back then that 5 daily 400-seat trains had the potential to empty a lot of planes. One year on, have they? Or just abstracted revenue from LNER?

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

MORE SLEEPER TRAINS! New entrant Midnight Trains plans 'hotel style' sleeper trains radiating from Paris,

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

Twenty years ago today, on 21 March 2001, I registered the domain name . Incredible to think that the site's been around that long.

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@seatsixtyone

3 months

It’s now pretty clear to everyone that the LNER fares ‘simplification’ was a smokescreen for removing the Off-Peak fare to allow big price increases - I now suspect DfT is behind this. As a trial simplification for passengers it has already failed & should NOT be extended.

Rob Beech

@robjbeech

3 months

Anyone still on the fence about the REAL intentions of LNER and their new fare "simplification"? A train on 9/3/24. Ordinarily the £83.80 Super OffPeak would have prohibited more expensive advances being sold, not any more. A 66.5% fare rise. Of course, nobody will read this!

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

Well, rail had 35% of the London-Edinburgh rail-air market pre-pandemic. It's now over 50%, hitting 57% in favour of rail in April-August 2022 - making rail the market leader on this route. Something is clearly working...

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

News of the month, to put it mildly: New operator Evolyn to start London-Paris trains in 2025 in competition with Eurostar.

Evolyn to launch Paris – London trains in competition with Eurostar

EUROPE: High speed rail start-up Evolyn has announced plans to launch passenger services to compete with Eurostar on the 'strategic and high demand' route between Paris and London. On October 11 the...

www.railwaygazette.com

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

AND SO IT STARTS... Dutch Mrs 61 uses the EU Exit app & in spite of having paid NI & doing tax returns living here since 2003, being married to me since 2005 & having had two kids in Stoke Mandeville hospital - no Settled Status....

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

FABULOUS NEWS! Great Britain to remain in Interrail & Eurail schemes. This has really made my day. Hats off to RDG & National Rail operators for listening - many, many people young and old will appreciate this for years to come.

Rail Delivery Group

@RailDeliveryGrp

5 years

Britain’s train companies never wanted to leave Interrail. Following the strong reaction to news of our departure we and Eurail, the company which runs Interrail, renewed talks.

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

Thank you @unsereOEBB for the chance to have a closer look at the new generation Nightjet sleeper trains…

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

@drdavidbull @brexitparty_uk It takes just 4h54 London to Strasbourg with one easy same-station change in Lille, thanks to Europe ‘s growing high-speed rail network - bringing people together.

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

New sleeper train from Sweden will get passengers to London by morning

Sweden's government wants to provide viable alternatives to short-haul flights

www.independent.co.uk

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@seatsixtyone

6 years

IT'S OFFICIAL! DIRECT EUROSTAR LONDON TO ROTTERDAM & AMSTERDAM TO START 4 APRIL... London-Amsterdam in 3h41 centre to centre, fares from £35 each way. Timetable & details at

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

Further evidence duly submitted, they may now respond in days or weeks or months. We’re mentally & literally preparing to sell our home & leave the country. @guyverhofstadt - you’re right, don’t give these crooks any deal until/unless this is sorted.

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@seatsixtyone

6 months

TWENTY YEARS ago today, in a flurry of snow in a windswept Brenner Pass in the end vestibule of S-type sleeping-car 3425 of the Venice Simplon Orient Express, Mrs 61 & I got engaged. We’d only been going out 6 months. But when you know, you know… ❤️

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

London to Sweden by train with 1 easy change in Brussels, anyone? Swedish Transport Authority's reports on proposed new sleeper train to link Sweden to mainland Europe. It doesn't just propose Malmo/Copenhagen to Cologne, but extending it to Brussels! Bring it on...

Sebastian Wilken

@sebwilken

4 years

Die schwedische Verkehrsbehörde @trafikverket hat heute ihren Abschlussbericht für einen #Nachtzug nach Europa vorgelegt. Darin wird nicht nur die Verbindung #Malm ö🇸🇪 – #K öln ausdrücklich empfohlen, sondern auch eine Verlängerung bis nach #Br üssel🇧🇪

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

Some Dutch rail staff are working from home today...

Bartho Boer

@barthoboer

4 years

Tussen alle serieuze berichten door een vrolijke noot: thuiswerken bij ⁦ @NS_online ⁩ 💙💛🤣

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@seatsixtyone

10 months

In December, the Paris-Vienna Nightjet increases from 3 per week to daily (thank goodness, it's always full), it'll run combined with a NEW Paris-Berlin Nightjet, splitting at Mannheim. First time I've seen it stated as fact, courtesy of @TodaysRailways1 . Bring it on!!

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@seatsixtyone

11 months

Today I’ve been privileged to visit what will become Britain’s longest railway bridge: The Colne Valley viaduct on HS2 near Denham.

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

DIRECT EUROSTAR TRAINS AMSTERDAM TO LONDON START 30 APRIL. Rotterdam to London starts from 18 May (as terminal needs a bit more work). Tickets on sale from 11 Feb.

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@seatsixtyone

8 months

A modern high-speed line linking 8 of Britain’s 10 biggest cities is about as far from a white elephant as you can get. But you *could* make it a white elephant if you really, really tried. The current administration is trying…

Nick Bowes

@nickbowes1975

8 months

FFS. First, Cancelling Phase 2. Now, no Euston link either. This is no way to run a country.

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@seatsixtyone

5 months

If it was anyone else saying this (and drawing lines on maps with crayons), I wouldn't give it the time of day. But Eurotunnel? And they seem serious. We can but hope! "Trains will run from London to Cologne, Frankfurt and Geneva by 2030, vows Eurotunnel"

Trains will run from London to Cologne, Frankfurt and Geneva by 2030, vows Eurotunnel

‘Space will be found at St Pancras for new entrants,’ says Channel Tunnel chief

www.independent.co.uk

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

This is the absolute definition of short term thinking. Wrecking long-term national infrastructure investment to tinker with the price of a bus ticket. They just don’t care.

Mark Harper

@Mark_J_Harper

7 months

🆕 funding to boost bus services 🚌 This increase in funding to improve local bus services – and to extend the £2 bus fare cap to 31 December 2024 – has only been possible with the redirected HS2 funding secured by this Government making the right long-term decisions 👇

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@seatsixtyone

3 months

Speeding from Kings Cross to Cambridge to give a talk to Cambridge University Railway Club. Luxuriating in the many amenities of a class 700, the thick pile carpet, spacious tables, armrests, power sockets, comfy thick seat cushions…

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@seatsixtyone

8 months

Hourly 125mph train service between Miami & Orlando starts next week. Could just be a turning point in U.S. transportation.

Can the future of passenger rail be found between Miami and Orlando?

The debut of Brightline service linking Miami to the central Florida tourist mecca is giving rail advocates hope that passenger rail will gain popularity elsewhere, too.

www.route-fifty.com

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

I’m no fan of this lot (basically fighting a battle that was fought & won 350 years ago) but Britain is sliding into authoritarianism here. Whatever your politics, our British values are seriously at risk under the current regime.

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

1 year

Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.

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@seatsixtyone

6 months

Well I had to, didn't I? That's 2 adjacent upper mini-cabins - the biggest innovation in European sleeper trains since WW2 - booked for myself & Master 61 in December, just days after the first new train enters service.

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@seatsixtyone

15 days

Easy win for today’s best St George’s Day tweet…

Westminster Strategic Studies Group

@WestminsterSSG

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@seatsixtyone

3 months

Last week, you could always have taken the 19:00 London-Edinburgh using an £87 Super Off-Peak fare. Well, fares have been simplified: Tomorrow night there's just ONE easy-to-understand fare on the 19:00, £193, take it or leave it...

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

BRITAIN TO PULL OUT OF INTERRAIL/EURAIL SCHEME. Now it is indeed official, I have the press release. Interrail/Eurail passes will no longer cover (not so) Great Britain from 1 Jan 2020, although Eurostar will still be covered.

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

This is a decision of the British train operators, it's on them. It's as if they see the Flygskam grass-roots movement towards rail, and instead of welcoming it, deliberately go out of their way to stop it. UK has been part of InterRail since 1973.

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

Essential reading to understand Eurostar's situation: Main problem = Brexit, St Pancras can process max 1500 passengers p/hour vs 2200 in 2019 = unable to increase timetable to meet demand = volume/growth strategy suspended, concentrating on high-yield/full trains - no Kent stops

Justin on eurostar

@EurostarJustinp

2 years

Here's the full letter from Jacques Damas setting out the challenges currently faced by eurostar.

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@seatsixtyone

10 months

The extent of today's proposed ticket office closures potentially invalidates almost all current penalty fares schemes.

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

Good morning. There are worse places to wake up than St Moritz. View from the Hotel Waldhaus am See.

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

A new sleeper train starts next Thursday: Hamburg to Stockholm overnight, bringing Sweden closer. I'm booked on the inaugural northbound train on 1 September, so tune in next week for a Scandinavian rail adventure...

Arian (Ährenbrot)

@ayranundspeck

2 years

Was ein internationaler Morgen 🤩

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

@DavidGHFrost 5 hours of airports & panes? Sounds awful. And unnecessary. You'll soon be able to avoid all that, and travel time-effectively the proper way!

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

The longest station bench in the world, Scarborough, 456 feet, Grade II listed.

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@seatsixtyone

5 years

My all-new Caledonian Sleeper room for the night... #Journeyofanighttime

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@seatsixtyone

10 months

Your periodic reminder to all rail industry professionals worldwide: Passengers come first, advertising comes second, so NEVER cover the windows!

KLad

@KPL1875

10 months

@seatsixtyone @trenitalia Travelling through Alps in glorious Freccisrossa Executive... but WHY the spotty windows obscuring the view? Why mess up one of the main reasons for doing the journey?

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

My wish list? Resume carrying bikes. Reopen Ebbsfleet/Ashford. Start carrying dogs/pets. Restore ski trains. Restore Lyon/Avignon/Marseille train. Restore through ticketing from UK regions. Restore through ticketing to French & German destinations...

The Man in Seat 61

@seatsixtyone

2 years

Eurostar Group names next CEO and targets 30 million passengers within 10 years

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Just got the green light for a jaunt round Spain & Portugal next month. London to Paris £218 for 305 miles in 2h20 even a month in advance. Paris to Barcelona €79 (£68) for 667 miles in 6h45 - although I paid €99 (£85) for 1st class. Go figure…

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

STOCKHOLM EXPRESS… So here I am in the business lounge at @StPancrasInt , for 15:04 Eurostar to Brussels, on to Cologne & Hamburg tomorrow, then to Stockholm on the inaugural run of the new @SJ_AB EuroNight sleeper train. What’s in Stockholm? Something really special…

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

Rejoin the EU and get £1.50 off every bottle of wine you buy for life... Now THAT'S a deal!

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@seatsixtyone

11 days

From €39.90 + €3 seat reservation. Really? Taking this Swiss 1st class panorama car through the Arlberg Pass from Zurich to Innsbruck & Graz is one of Europe’s great travel bargains!

Nonstop Eurotrip 🇺🇦

@nonstopeurotrip

11 days

All aboard #EuroCity164 'Transalpin' from #Graz 🇦🇹 to #Innsbruck 🇦🇹 in the amazing Panoramic Coach! 🚃 This is one of #Europe 's GREAT railway journeys, with amazing alpine scenery 🏞️ and a fantastic @_DiningCar which we'll visit for lunch 🍻 #Interrail #NonstopEurotrip

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@seatsixtyone

10 months

News from Belgrade: Public transport is now unusable as tram & bus tickets can no longer be paid on board. You must buy by SMS from a phone and (of course!) only Serbian SIMs work, or buy from a handful of outlets, all closed on Sundays. Taxis now recommended for all journeys.

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

At last! Direct Amsterdam to London Eurostars to start from 26 October, from £40 each way...

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@seatsixtyone

4 years

In the Hotel Altora’s restaurant, my beer has arrived... 👍

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@seatsixtyone

5 months

So today I’m on an ICE4, speeding towards Hamburg, keen to try those innovative mini cabins on the new generation Nightjet…

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

OK, that's the new Paris-Berlin Nightjet sleeper added to Seat61, starts running 3 days per week from 10 Dec, due to become daily from autumn 2024. Not just added for Paris-Berlin & Berlin-Paris of course, but for Paris-Krakow, Paris-Warsaw, Berlin-Barcelona, Madrid-Krakow, etc.

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@seatsixtyone

3 months

Hmm. Small boats? Turns out the real problem is private jets... #StopThePlanes

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 months

BREAKING: The Home Office has fired the chief inspector of borders and immigration after he claimed UK Border Force had failed to check the occupants of hundreds of private jets at a London airport. 🔗 Read more

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@seatsixtyone

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“From train guard to CEO: Meet the Dutchman who crowdfunded night train start-up @EuropeanSlpr ”. The new (London-) Brussels-Berlin sleeper starts this coming Friday, I’ll be riding the first departure.

Night trains: Inside Europe's newest sleeper train service

We spoke with European Sleeper co-founder Elmer van Buuren about the challenges and triumphs in setting up his new night train company.

www.euronews.com

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I really REALLY like this car…

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

Press conference on night trains: From Dec 2021, new sleeper trains to be introduced Vienna/Munich to Paris and Amsterdam to Zurich. From Dec 2022, Zurich to Rome. From Dec 2023 Berlin to Brussels/Paris. From Dec 2024 Zurich to Barcelona.

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@seatsixtyone

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EUROPEAN TIMETABLE 2024: A thread summarising the most significant changes with the 2024 timetable starting 10 December 2023...

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

Did I say Stockholm Express? Make that LONDON-HELSINKI EXPRESS. Now safely on board the superb Silja Serenade, Stockholm depart 16:45, Helsinki arrive 10:30 tomorrow morning.

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@seatsixtyone

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It’s happening! From 25 May, London depart 15:04 by Eurostar, Brussels depart 19:22 on Mon, Wed, Fri by sleeper, Berlin arrive 06:48.

Back On Track Belgium

@BackOnTrackBE

1 year

We have a date! 25th May, #Hub4brussels gets a 2nd #nighttrain #traindenuit #Nachtzug #nachttrein . Hours are not at the best and about the coaches we keep having questions but all the succes! #sustainable #rail #tourism #travel

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

The wonderful York Station…

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@seatsixtyone

7 months

Indonesia opens it's first 350 km/h (217 mph) high-speed line this week, called (wait for it) 'Whoosh...'

Nonstop Eurotrip 🇺🇦

@nonstopeurotrip

7 months

All aboard #VIP Class on the pre-launch test run of #Whoosh @KeretaCepatID #Indonesia 🇮🇩 This 350kmh Chinese CR400 high-speed train whisks you from #Jakarta to #Bandung in just 46 mins vs 3 hours on conventional lines 🚄 Let's go! #NonstopEurotrip

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So I’m at St Pancras in plenty of time for the 14:31 to Paris, bound for Nice & the Côte d’Azur. Did I say Nice? I meant Turin. Spelt P-a-l-e-r-m-o…

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@seatsixtyone

2 years

On time! The Swiss Alps to London in one easy day.

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1 year

Your periodic reminder that there's a special fare from most British stations to a destination called London International CIV (station code LNE) that you can use when connecting with Eurostar - but it can only be bought in person, not online, see

George Ryall

@GRyall

1 year

As always, thanks to @seatsixtyone for his excellent advice on buying CIV tickets

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It seems the evidence was sufficient - Mrs 61 has been granted Settled Status. We are SO relieved, after 3 years of uncertainty & stress. I so hope others in our situation have their uncertainty resolved too, and soon.

The Man in Seat 61

@seatsixtyone

4 years

AND SO IT STARTS... Dutch Mrs 61 uses the EU Exit app & in spite of having paid NI & doing tax returns living here since 2003, being married to me since 2005 & having had two kids in Stoke Mandeville hospital - no Settled Status....

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@seatsixtyone

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Finally! Renfe are (re-)launching Madrid/Barcelona to Lyon/Marseille AVE trains. Barcelona-Lyon starts 13 July, initially Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon. Madrid-Marseille starts 28 July, also Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon. Both should become daily in September. Fares from €29, lower for shorter hops.

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@seatsixtyone

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How have they cut Amsterdam-Berlin to 5h52? Eliminating loco change at the border. Skipping stops at Almelooow & 3 smaller German stations. A new turn back platform at Oldenzaal gets a local train out of the way. Brand new ICE-L trains with bistro due by end of 2024.

NS International

@NS_Int

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De vlag kan uit!🇳🇱🇩🇪 Vanaf vandaag reis je een half uur sneller van #Amsterdam naar #Berlijn . #IntercityBerlijn rijdt nu binnen 6 uur van Amsterdam naar Berlijn. Om deze mooie mijlpaal te bereiken, zijn er 3 maatregelen genomen. We leggen het hier uit: ➡️

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2 years

I am now At Large on the Continent with a 1st class mobile global Interrail pass. And I’m not afraid to use it…

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@seatsixtyone

3 years

So in today’s London to Glasgow race, plane beats train - by TWO MINUTES. A 1-hour flights vs 4h30 train journey, in reality only 2 minutes difference. With plane emitting 7 times more CO2 and much more stressful, I think we know which is the real winner…

Campaign for Better Transport

@CBTransport

3 years

They've arrived! @Paultuohy on the plane and Norman Baker on the train got to George Square just TWO MINS apart. Paul *just* beat Norman, but his journey emitted around 7x more carbon emissions. With Norman's journey more pleasant too, the case for #trainNOTplane is clear.

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GLACIER EXPRESS! After riding this superb train again a week ago, I've completely revised the Seat 61 Glacier Express guide, . We had fabulous weather for it, I hope the photos of the journey do it justice...

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@seatsixtyone

5 months

Some people have a better view from their desk than others…

Fabio

@calandamountain

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This view never get's old

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