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The Guardian Lifestyle Travel - Saturday 23rd May 2026 - rogerfarnworth - 31/07/2026 18:08
Part 3 – Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys – Part A
The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the third part of a look at those pages and focuses on some reader’s recommendations of journeys by train. It includes a few more uploaded by the Guardian online.
The featured image for this article is a Flexity Outlook Eurotram at Trindade station in Porto, Portugal, © Cornelius Kibelka and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 2.0). [3]
3. Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys
A. A Dramatic Metro Line in Porto
B. Fjords and Waterfalls in Norway
C. An Electric Gem in Germany
D. The Swiss Watchmakers’ Line
E. Charmed by the Vienna to Zagreb train
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/05/27/the-guardian-lifestyle-travel-saturday-23rd-may-2026-part-3-readers-favourite-railway-journeys-part-a/
The Guardian Lifestyle Travel - Saturday 23rd May 2026 - rogerfarnworth - 31/07/2026 20:40
Part 4 – Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys – Part B
The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the fourth part of a look at those pages and includes more reader’s recommendations of journeys by train. It includes a few more uploaded by the Guardian online.
The featured image for this article is a photograph of Le Petit Train Jaune which runs from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour de Carol/Enveitg in the Pyrenees, © A1AA1A and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 3.0). [33]
4. Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys – Part B
F. Vintage Locomotives in Tuscany.
G. Alpine beauty on the Montreux to Interlaken line.
H. Slow travel at its best: Belgrade to Bar.
I. Through Italy’s Apennines to Rome from the Adriatic.
J. Best way to See the Pyrenees? On a Little Yellow Train!
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/05/28/the-guardian-lifestyle-travel-saturday-23rd-may-2026-part-4-readers-favourite-railway-journeys-part-b/
The Railways of West Cumberland again. ... - rogerfarnworth - Yesterday 20:24
The Railways of West Cumberland – Part 2
The featured image for this article is a photograph taken by Walter Dendy of a football excursion returning from Egremont to Carlisle passing through Distington Railway Station behind ex-LMS Class ‘4F’ Locomotive No. 44461 in 1951. The line to the left is to Rowrah and Kelton Fell line, © W. Dendy and licenced for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 2.0). [6]
This article is based around the potted history of West Cumberland’s railways written by C. A. Knight and included in his article in The Railway Magazine of November 1954. [1]
Knight explains that the growing importance of Carlisle as a railway centre, sitting as it did on the natural route between England and Scotland and already the terminus of existing and proposed railways.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/05/31/the-railways-of-west-cumberland-part-2/
The Railways of Tanzania again. ... - rogerfarnworth - Today 20:42
Railways of Tanzania – Part 7 – The Central Line – An Introductory History and the Length of Line from Dar-es-Salaam to Mikese
The featured image for this article is a photograph of East African Railways (EAR) Class 30 steam locomotive No. 3019 ‘Nyamwezi’ at Tabora depot on the Central Line, Tanzania in 1968. Class 30 locomotives were oil-burning 2-8-4 steam locomotives. Built in the 1950s by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, the 26 engines in the Class were named after indigenous tribes across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania). They were known as the ‘Tribal Class’ of locomotives, © Basil Roberts and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). [44]
The line from Dar-es-Salaam to Kigoma. was known during the German Protectorate as the Mittelland Bahn. Under British colonial control it was the Central Line.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/06/04/railways-of-tanzania-part-7-the-central-line-an-introductory-history-and-the-length-of-line-from-dar-es-salaam-to/