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    Border protocols at "Schengen" borders

    Very expensive; the Inner German border and associated restrictions in the border zone reduced East Germany's GDP by something like 6%, I recall reading.
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    Megabus US owner files for bankruptcy protection

    Chapter 11 is administration, Chapter 7 is liquidation: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/differences-between-chapter-7-and-chapter-11/
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    Walking and Rambling discussion

    Well, I was wearing walking trousers and a long-sleeved jacket, but I still got scratched by a bramble on my hand. That damaged log bridge has just been fixed, BTW.
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    Another cross 'hard' border train service stopping

    One big problem in Africa is a lot of places need visas to get into, which reduces intra-African tourism and has definitely hampered air travel there.
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    Furthest you can go from the UK with just two trains?

    Pre-Covid, it was Moscow via a Paris Nord to Est walk, then the RZD sleeper train that ran once a week. Today it's Vienna via the Nightjet from Paris-Est.
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    European Travel and Health Insurance

    Your bank or building society might have a travel insurance policy for customers.
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    HSTs to Nigeria

    And they're walking on the track, of course...
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    Train Sim World

    The DB 218 is coming on 25 June. https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-sim-world/articles/article/db-br-218-coming-soon
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    Train Travel Out Of Germany On Eve Of WW2

    As a further note, it was clear that a war was coming in the last week of August as the situation between Germany and Poland heated up - a group of German operatives launched an attack in Poland on 25/26 August as they'd not gotten the message that Hitler was delaying the invasion...
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    How was passenger travel handled during WW2?

    London was rather smaller then, mind. I know 317s had First Class.
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    Walking and Rambling discussion

    Chingford to Havering-atte-Bower on Saturday.
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    Medloc trains post WW2

    What was a PYTHON in this context? I'm only familiar with that as a Cold War codename for "get the ministers into the bunkers".
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    Volunteering at a heritage railway as a non UK citizen.

    I would suggest getting legal advice in this matter.
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    Border protocols at "Schengen" borders

    Polish EC/IC trains to Berlin stop at Frankfurt an der Oder in any event.
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    Volunteering at a heritage railway as a non UK citizen.

    You're basically helping them generate profit by your volunteering, I'd say.
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    47375 railtour in Hungary

    Why is that UK - KR on the front in any event? We've changed to UK for cars, but as far as I was aware, we're still GB for European Vehicle Numbers.
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    47375 railtour in Hungary

    Owned by these people. Continental Train
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    Border protocols at "Schengen" borders

    Temporary border checks for the Olympics and Paralympics. Among other things.
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    Volunteering at a heritage railway as a non UK citizen.

    I think you might well need a visa as you're doing work that isn't covered by a Standard Visitor arrangement: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

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