Recent content by Ayman Ilham

In Switzerland and (to a lesser extent) Germany, they use the term 'InterRegional' (IR) to describe something in-between a Regional (RB/RE) and InterCity (IC) train, or simply a long-distance service with more stops. Perhaps this term is more fitting for such services. All these routes (Cardiff...

It's not like you need a passport to cross the borders anyway; what they should be more upset about is the fact that those English counties along the border, which the Welsh Marches Line runs through, are supposed to be part of Wales anyway given historically, they were! It's probably a LOT...

I'm aware of that (didn't really need a day ticket at the time because I just needed the one bus to get me home quicker than waiting an extra half-hour for my local train just to go 2 stops), but rarely use buses enough within the Blackburn local zone to make it worthwhile. Besides, when I know...

Ah, I think my journey (Blackburn to the Mill Hill area) was probably just over the limit of being classed as a 'shorter journey', not sure where it's supposed to be within Blackburn. Luckily the £1 thing for Lancashire is still a thing on evenings and Sundays, so I'll keep that in mind.

Transdev Blackburn, the main company in the locality. They probably don't have any other single fares programmed at the moment (they had £1.70 short distance fares when my wife used to get the bus home from work but they got scrapped a few months back), so it appears the £2 fare that became £3...

In Blackburn, £3 is a de-facto flat fare unfortunately (not just a max fare as stated on paper), as even a short hop home from town is £3 with no lower fare between £2 and £3. Just used the bus now (used to be £2 or £1 after 7pm) to get home quicker than waiting an extra half-hour for my hourly...

Thank you very much; as it was my most ambitious adventure to date, I'm glad I managed to make great content out of it. I actually feel like doing more Interrail trips in the future, given how many different ideas I have on what I could do with it, as well as what I would do differently after my...

4th and final video in the series now released:

3rd video is now online:

Lugano in Switzerland has an intermediate stop at the cathedral on their funicular that connects the railway station to the city centre.

It is definitely a step in the right direction.

I wonder what the possibility of a bi-mode version of the Stadler Giruno built to British loading gauge for CrossCountry would be (a 10-car unit for each Voyager to double the capacity on every service and give opportunity for new connections so passenger growth can be managed much easier), if...

Meanwhile in Switzerland, SBB have no problem whacking 20 carriages (I'm not joking, I've been on one) on far less populated intercity routes like Zurich to Lugano (equivalent in distance and population with Edinburgh to Inverness) - yes, that's right; they're better at doubling up 10-car units...

Video of the first travel day is now uploaded: 1720256460 Now I have released the video for the next travel day:

Oh wow, I always seem to underestimate how long Carlisle to Glasgow or Edinburgh really is! 1719331379 Then the first split would have to be at Preston, as Preston to Carlisle (IIRC) is just over 75 miles.