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Railways
Forgotten lines, atmospheric stations, and journeys worth the long ride.
Trains are the most honest way to read a country. They pass through the backs of houses, the working edges of cities, the parts no airport ever sees.
Here we collect our writing on railway journeys worth taking slowly — atmospheric stations, lines that no longer carry passengers, and routes that still connect villages the highways skipped.
Articles in Railways
Architecture
Most Beautiful Train Stations In Europe
Antwerpen-Centraal's three-story 'railway cathedral', São Bento's 20,000 hand-painted azulejo tiles, the brick madness of Helsinki Central — eight European stations worth missing your train for.
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Railways
Lost Railway Routes
The closed Iron Curtain crossings, the Trans-Caprivi rails left in Namibian sand, England's beautiful 1963 Beeching cuts — six railway lines that ran, mattered, and stopped, plus the ones that came back.
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Railways
Historic Train Journeys
The Trans-Siberian's 9,289 km, the Bernina Express in winter, the Belmond Royal Scotsman around the Highlands — eight railway journeys still operating as they were a century ago, and how to actually book a berth.
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