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Following the recent departure of the US Embassy, plans are afoot to revamp the neighbouring Grosvenor Square now that the security paranoia has moved away.
Posted 6 hours ago by Railpage System User
At about 3:30am most weekday mornings, Lovelie is by the roadside near her home in Kenscoff, Haiti, waiting for a vehicle with her produce of carrots and broccoli. With luck, a ‘camion’ with sufficient room for her and her bundles will come by soon, to take her for the 22-kilometer trip to the Croix-de-Bossales market in the center of Port-au-Prince, where she has a stall.
Posted 2 days ago by bevans
A journey through history on a thousand-mile journey from Vietnam's north to south
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
I recently attended a meeting in Birmingham, and being me my first thought was to go by train, but when I looked at the address of the meeting venue on a map I thought it might be a bit difficult by train, a bit too far from New Street station. Should I drive instead?
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
I was woken by the bustle of the carriage preparing for arrival long before my sleeper train arrived at Shanghai South station. It was early in the morning (too early for my liking) and although the train continued to Ningbo (another 5 hours south), the majority of the passengers on board were leaving the train at Shanghai. We arrived right on time, and I stepped out onto the cold platform with several thousand other bleary eyed travellers.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
I awoke in my bunk on board train D942, a high speed sleeper train which I had boarded the previous night in Zhuhai, on China’s southern border. We had stopped at Shaoxing East station and after checking the timetable I found that were not scheduled to stop here, but appeared to be “waiting time”.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Immediately after arriving from the KA Sibinuang B6 from Padang at 3.37pm, I needed to get on the KA Sibinuang B7 from Pariaman Railway Station back to Padang at 4.20pm as it was the last train of the day. The KA Sibinuang plies the Padang – Pariaman route just 4 times a day in each direction.
When I got to the ticket counter at Pariaman Railway Station just after arriving, tickets for the KA Sibinuang B7 were already all sold out.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The KA Sibinuang is the flagship train of Divre II running between Padang and Pariaman. Being the smallest Regional Division in Sumatra and potentially the smallest operating group in both Java and Sumatra, the KA Sibinuang actually plies the entire mainline of Divre II. However, being a short journey of around 2 hours and with just 4 pairs of trains daily, the line used more for sightseeing and tourism purposes rather than a transport backbone of Padang.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Royal Railway operates the sole railway network in Cambodia, with the main railway line running between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville. I decided to give the revived railway a shot on a Sunday as it is the only day in the week that has a train which runs in both directions twice a day, enabling me to complete the line in a single day.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
When I was growing up it was hard to imagine that I would ever be able to visit eastern Europe, or if I did I would be constantly under suspicion and in danger. There were exotic cities like Budapest, Bratislava, Belgrade, Berlin, Prague and Warsaw which I never expected to see and yet now all are easily accessible. They are in EU countries and as an EU citizen I can visit them and feel at home – until next year anyway, and even though language and currencies vary, it is easy enough to mix with fellow citizens of what Mikhail Gorbachev called “our common European home”. This year I managed to visit some of these on an escorted rail tour with Great Rail Journeys. I have already written about our very brief introduction to Berlin, probably the city that symbolises the past division of Europe, and from there we moved on to Prague which was a totally different experience. Prague was almost completely untouched by 2nd World War bombing whereas Berlin was almost destroyed; Prague was the centre of an early attempt to break free from Soviet domination; Prague has an enormously long history as a capital city of an historic principality, then kingdom and finally a republic as it is today.
We arrived there by direct train from Berlin, and when we left we took a direct train to Budapest, both operated by the Czech national railway with comfortable, modern carriages and electric locomotives. They were not high speed trains but reached 90mph at times and some very good food and drink were available from the restaurant and buffet car: this was neither the down-at-heel slow and dirty train of film-noir spy stories nor the glamour of international expresses of the inter-war detective story.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
On my trip from London to Singapore, I made my Vietnamese portion of the journey from the border of Dong Dang to Hanoi, and planned to continue down from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, only for the journey to be truncated at Bien Hoa just about an hour short of Ho Chi Minh City due to the collapse of the Ghenh Bridge over the Dong Nai River.
To complete the missing rail link from London to York and all the way down to Bien Hoa before getting on the transhipment bus and train via Song Than to Ho Chi Minh City, I decided to get a Grab from Ho Chi Minh City back to Bien Hoa to complete this short but significant leg.
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