Article search results

Down the Drain | Nancy Lyon | United Kingdom, London, London

Over-the-shoulder espionage and underground eavesdropping: spend a day as a mole, mindlessly riding the Northern Line, the oldest, longest line of oldest subway on earth-the London Tube

• Read more

Eating in French Railway Stations | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

Paris’s stylish mainline railway stations bring a flavour of the regions to the French capital

• Read more

Letting the train take the strain | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Oh, the effortless elegance of rail travel. White linen in the dining car, watching the sun set over the Tuscan coast, then golden slumbers all the way to Paris, lulled by the clackety-clack of the wheels on the track

• Read more

Luxurious Railway Journeys of the World | Martin O'Brien

What is remarkable in this supersonic age of diminished distances, when you can fly from Singapore to Bangkok in a matter of hours, is that the magic and romance of traditional rail travel should still endure

• Read more

Orient Express | Yvonne Van Dongen | Peru, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Cuzco

But the 360 km first-class journey from Cuzco in the highlands of Peru to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca near the Bolivian border, is part of the Orient Express network and promises to be especially luxurious

• Read more

The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu | John Borthwick | Peru, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Machu Picchu

The old pistons wheeze out an eponymous pant - "machu-picchu-machu-picchu" - as the train inches up a series of switch-backs towards the lip of Cusco Valley, then ramps off into the bright Andean sky

• Read more

The West Coast of India by Train | Andrew Eames

Railways take you through peoples' back yards, and Bombay's back yard is a parade of slum-dwellings and naked fly-bothered children, streaked with dried tears

• Read more