The Danish and German governments this week agreed to go ahead with a planned fixed link between Puttgarden and Rødby, which will replace the current “Vogelfluglinie” train ferry service.
This seemed as good a time as any to upload a couple of articles I wrote for Eagle, the journal of the Cambridge University Railway Club, about a trip from Hamburg to Copenhagen via the train ferry service, and a brief visit to a corner of Sweden.
Visting the French city of Grenoble back in May 2005, I was impressed to discover that the ticket machines on the tram stops offer an English language option. As I don’t speak French, this was rather useful.
Unfortunately, after buying a ticket in English, the display says that Croydon Tramlink wishes you a good journey
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The the unofficial Croydon Tramlink website has oodles of information about Croydon Tramlink, and its ticketing systems – presumably Grenoble used the same software!
The May 2008 issue of Today’s Railways magazine has an interesting article on the Septemvri – Bansko – Dobrinishte line in Bulgaria; “The Rhodope Mountains route. BDZ’s last narrow gauge line” by Chris Bailey.
In summer 2006 I did the route as part of a holiday trip to Bulgaria, and subsequently wrote an article about the narrow gauge line.
Croydon looking – almost – pretty in the snow.
