Inspiring Travel Writing About Train Journeys

"I hurried, hot, sweating and bedraggled away from the clamouring taxi rank outside Bangkok's Hualamphong Station and stumbled towards a row of distinctive green and cream carriages on platform 3..."

"We’ve been climbing higher and higher, through successive layers of vegetation. As we emerge from the Grätli tunnel, suddenly the view from my tiny carriage is filled with the Bernese Oberland’s dramatic trio of mountains..."

"In my dreams I’d been to the Amazon. It was a steamy world of luxuriant foliage, beady-eyed monkeys, jewel-bright birds and improbably large insects: a place where anything could happen – and frequently did. I had such high expectations that I..."

"It’s 4:00 pm and the Celtic weather Gods look down on the Snowdonia region of Wales and are in fine mood. The sun is beating down and except for the scatterings of travelling puffs of black smoke trails dotting the mountainous and coastal landscape..."