Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe

What's New

Details of recent changes to the content of the Guide

Note: due to a change of web host, most files are showing "Last update" dates of 18 September 2006 unless changes have been made more recently.

2007/2008 Timetable Period

5 May 2008: Obscure service pages updated for Latvia and Spain. Border crossings details updated for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

20 April 2008: Obscure service pages updated for France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Netherlands, Turkey and United Kingdom. Tram services over obscure routes updated.

6 April 2008: Obscure service pages updated for France, Germany, Italy and Poland. General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg and United Kingdom.

21 March 2008: Obscure service pages updated for Poland and Spain. General Information pages updated for France. Border crossings details updated for Portugal and Spain.

11 March 2008: Obscure service pages updated for France. Rest of the World updated.

19 February 2008: Obscure service pages updated for Austria and Spain. Border crossings details updated for Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.

17 February 2008: Obscure service pages updated for Poland. General Information pages updated for Poland. Border crossings details updated for Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

15 January 2008: Obscure service pages updated for Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.

30 December 2007: Swiss "Heritage" Railways amended. Rest of the World updated.

21 December 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Ukraine.

16 December 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Sweden. General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Rest of the World updated.

12 December 2007: General Information pages updated for Spain and United Kingdom. Rest of the World updated.

2006/2007 Timetable Period

14 October 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Austria. General Information pages updated for Austria, Macedonia and Montenegro. Rest of the World updated. Links page updated.

13 September 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Sweden. General Information pages updated for Austria and Switzerland. Rest of the World updated.

6 September 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Austria.

22 August 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Albania, Spain and Sweden. Border crossings details updated for Austria and Germany. Rest of the World updated.

29 July 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Croatia, Italy, Poland, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Switzerland. General Information pages updated for Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast). Rest of the World updated. Swiss "Heritage" Railways amended.

4 July 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Poland. General Information pages updated for Ireland. Rest of the World updated.

2 July 2007: General Information pages updated for Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Slovakia. Rest of the World updated. Swiss "Heritage" Railways amended. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

15 June 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Sweden. General Information pages updated for Sweden and United Kingdom.

10 June 2007: General Information pages updated for United Kingdom.

2 June 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Slovakia. General Information pages updated for Spain.

9 May 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Czech Republic, France and Switzerland. General Information pages updated for Denmark, France, Norway, Poland and United Kingdom. Germany (Other Railways) updated.

23 April 2007: General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. Rest of the World updated.

16 April 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Poland. General Information pages updated for Belgium and Poland. Swiss "Heritage" Railways amended. Tram services over obscure routes updated.

1 April 2007: Obscure services updated for France and Germany. General Information pages updated for Spain and United Kingdom. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Rest of the World updated.

2 March 2007: Obscure services updated for Italy and Switzerland. General Information pages updated for Italy.

27 February 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Poland. General Information pages updated for Poland. Border crossings details updated for Poland and Ukraine.

2 February 2007:  Border crossings details updated for Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Rest of the World updated.

5 January 2007: Obscure service pages updated for Hungary and Spain. General Information pages updated for Slovenia. Border crossings details updated for France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Rest of the World updated.

29 December 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Czech Republic, Hungary, Portugal and Spain. General Information pages updated for Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain. Rest of the World updated.

17 December 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Slovenia. General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

11 December 2006: Obscure service pages added for Ukraine, updated for Belgium and France. Border crossings details updated for France and Belgium. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

2005/2006 Timetable Period

20 November 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Luxembourg and Spain. Rest of the World updated.

11 November 2006: Obscure service pages updated for France. General Information pages updated for France and United Kingdom. Tram services over obscure routes updated. Pages for Serbia and Montenegro amended to reflect new ISO 3166 codes for these countries.

12 October 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Bosnia-Hercegovina and Netherlands.

10 October 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Italy. Border crossings details updated for Romania and Ukraine.

7 October 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Portugal.

23 September 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Bosnia-Hercegovina and Hungary. General Information pages updated for Bosnia-Hercegovina. Rest of the World updated.

20 September 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Austria, France, Italy and Spain. Border crossings details updated for Bulgaria, France, Serbia and Switzerland.

9 September 2006: General Information pages updated for Ukraine. Border crossings details updated for Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Rest of the World updated. Tram services over obscure routes updated.

6 August 2006:  Obscure service pages updated for Albania, Denmark, France, Germany and Norway. General Information pages updated for Denmark,  France, Poland and United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland. Rest of the World updated.

5 August 2006: Information on Serbia and Montenegro separated out following their independence from each other. Obscure service pages updated for Montenegro and Serbia. General Information pages updated for Montenegro and Serbia. Border crossings details updated for Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. Tram services over obscure routes updated.

4 August 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Spain. General Information pages updated for Hungary and Ukraine. Border crossings details updated for Belarus, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Rest of the World updated.

23 July 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Portugal and Spain. Border crossings details updated for Austria, Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia. Rest of the World updated. New page Tram services over obscure routes added.

2 July 2006: Obscure service pages updated for France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. General Information pages updated for Albania, France, Switzerland and United Kingdom; Swiss "Heritage" Railways amended. Border crossings details updated for France, Finland, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

29 May 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Finland and Luxembourg. General Information pages updated for Finland and United Kingdom. Rest of the World updated.

5 February 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Germany. General Information pages updated for Spain. Main General Information page updated.

15 January 2006: Obscure service pages for Germany re-arranged into a single document; clickable map added.

8 January 2006: Obscure service pages updated for Slovakia.

2004/2005 Timetable Period

20 September 2005: Obscure service pages updated for Portugal. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Rest of the World updated.

22 July 2005: Border crossings details updated for Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Rest of the World updated.

3 April 2005: Obscure service pages updated for France, Germany (Hamburg and Saarland). Main General Information page updated. General Information pages updated for Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. Border crossings details updated for France, Portugal and Spain.

5 February 2005: Obscure service pages updated for Belgium and Portugal. General Information pages updated for Portugal.

23 January 2005: Obscure service pages updated for Norway and Slovenia. General Information pages updated for United Kingdom. Border crossings details updated for Hungary and Slovenia.

14 January 2005: Obscure service pages updated for France. General Information pages updated for Slovakia and United Kingdom. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated. Border crossings details updated for Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.

2003/2004 Timetable Period

16 October 2004: Obscure service pages updated for Czech Republic, France, Greece and Hungary. General Information pages updated for Greece. Border crossings details updated for Bulgaria and Turkey.

18 July 2004: Border crossings details updated for Ireland and United Kingdom.

23 May 2004: Obscure service pages updated for Albania. General Information pages updated for Albania and Ukraine. Border crossings details updated for Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia-Montenegro.

21 May 2004: Obscure service pages updated for Italy, Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro. General Information pages added for Macedonia and updated for Serbia-Montenegro. List of downloadable versions of public timetables updated.

5 May 2004: Arrangements of Border Crossings details changed: see General Information on Border Crossings, including an alphabetical list of countries, Detailed Full List of Border Crossings and Railways across European Borders (a smaller list). Some updates made to almost all border crossing details.

19 December 2003: Obscure service pages updated for Spain. General Information pages updated for Denmark and Spain, including new help on using the RENFE website.

 

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