From 9 June 2024, Arriva‘s Tri-Country Train will connect Liège (Luik, Lüttich) in Belgium in to Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen (Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle) in Germany, after years of preparation. Contrary to previous announcements, the Dutch OV-chipkaart or public transport chip card will not be accepted as a valid ticket on the Belgian leg of…
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REVIEW | Eurostar Amsterdam – Antwerp – Brussels – Paris
Six days. Five overnight stays in five cities in Spain. Lunch in Paris. Stopover in Barcelona. Then Córdoba, Seville, Granada and Málaga. An Andalusia Whirlwind Tour where we visit the Mezquita and the Alhambra. We’re touring Andalusia in October 2023 to follow the trend of travelling to hot spots outside summer, as we did with…
Tri-Country Train between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen will start on Sunday 9 June 2024
Arriva‘s Tri-Country Train (Drielandentrein, Train des trois pays), which has been running between Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany since 2019, will continue to Liège in Belgium from 9 June 2024. The Tri-Country train is also known as LIMAX, an acronym for Liège-Maastricht-Aachen-Express.
Heuro wants to operate high speeds trains between Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris and London from 2028
Recently, we read quite a few big announcements regarding trans-continental train travel in Europe. We love those, but we’re also apprehensive. Let’s take a look.
Tri-Country Train between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen delayed until spring 2024
The so-called Tri-Country Train that was to connect Maastricht in the Netherlands with both Liège in Belgium and Aachen in Germany from December 2023 is being delayed. The first trains will only start running in the first half of 2024, outgoing State Secretary for Transport and Water Management Vivianne Heijnen (CDA) reports to the Dutch…
Aachen – Maastricht – Liège Tri-Country train service from December 2023 with Belgian guards and Dutch OV-chipkaart
German-Dutch train operator Arriva is full of confidence it will operate the so-called Tri-Country Train linking Aachen in Germany to Maastricht in the Netherlands and Liège in Belgium from December 2023. Treinreiziger.nl talked to a confident spokesperson.
Deutsche Bahn and Trenitalia want piece of Amsterdam – Brussels – Paris HST service via subsidiaries Arriva an Qbuzz
You probable have read or heard Arriva wants a train service linking Groningen in the north of the Netherlands to Paris. And Qbuzz wants a train from Amsterdam to Paris; and to Berlin.
Liège – Maastricht – Aachen train service from December 2023
Arriva is to operate a train service linking Liège in Belgium to Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany from December 2023. The train has been nicknamed Drielandentrein, or Three-Counties Train.
By train from Wroclaw to Karlovy Vary
Autumn 2021. In theory we could travel to other continents, but destinations we had in mind such as Japan or the United Kingdom were impossible to plan ahead. Instead we organised a rail trip to Eastern Europe, travelling to Berlin, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Karlovy Vary, Pilsen, Bratislava, Poprad, Vienna, Linz and Salzburg. By travelling to Germany,…
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