Train Journeys Outside The UK
I have travelled overseas by train on many occasions starting with my first interrail trip in 1987. From the first journey from Hoek of Holland to Amsterdam I was totally hooked!
Here I record all of my journeys overseas, a list I hope to be adding to on a regular basis!
First European Train = Hoek van Holland to Amsterdam Centraal 1987
First Asian Train = Jakarta to Bogor 1997
First South American Train = Puno to Cusco 2001
Puno to Cusco Express, Peru
First African Train = Luxor to Cairo 1996
First Middle East Train = Aleppo to Latakia 2009
On The Aleppo to Latakia Train, Syria
| Country | Journeys (Overnight) – Excludes trains from airport to city | Number |
| Albania | Tirana to Durres (return) + Tirana to Shkodra | 3 |
| Argentina | Buenos Aires to Tigre (return) | 2 |
| Armenia | Yerevan to Tbilisi | 1 |
| Austria | Vienna to Salzburg + Innsbruck to Vienna + Vienna to Maribor + Spielfeldstraße to Villach + Villach to Venice + Linz to Paris + Salzburg to Munich + Vienna to Bratislava + Klagenfurt to Semmering + Semmering to Vienna | 10 |
| Azerbaijan | Baku to Sheki + Sheki to Baku | 2 |
| Belarus | Minsk to Vilnius (Lithuania) | 1 |
| Belgium | Brussels to Bruges (Return) + Bruges to Ghent (return) Brussels to Antwerp (return) + Brussels to Amsterdam + Brussels to London (eight times) + Bruges to Ostend + Brussels to Gent (Return) | 26 |
| Bosnia | Sarajevo to Belgrade | 1 |
| Bulgaria | Oslo to Gorna Oryahovitsa (return) | 2 |
| China | Guangzhou to Kowloon | 1 |
| Croatia | Zagreb to Split + Ploce to Sarajevo | 2 |
| Cuba | Trinidad de Cuba to Valley de los Ingenios (return) | 2 |
| Czechia | Prague to Linz + Prague to Bohusovice nad Ohri (return) | 3 |
| Denmark | Copenhagen to Stockholm + Copenhagen to Oslo | 2 |
| Egypt | Luxor to Cairo | 1 |
| Finland | Kimi to Torvola (Return) + Kimi to Helsinki + Helsinki to Turku | 4 |
| France | Avignon to Lyon + Lyon to Strasbourg + Le Havre to Rouen (return) + Epernay to Paris + Nice to Monaco (Return) + Paris to Quimper (Return) + Paris to Luxembourg (twice) + Nimes to Paris + Paris to Brussels + Cherbourg to Paris + Paris to Copenhagen + Paris to Calais + Lille to London + Paris to London return (eighteen times) + London to Marseille + Marseille to Aix-en-Provence (return) | 53 |
| Georgia | Makhinjauri to Yerevan (Armenia) + Borjomi to Bakuriani + Tbilisi to Baku (Azerbaijan) | 1 |
| Germany | Munich to Salzburg + Munich to Holzkirchen (Return) + Munich to Innsbruck + Trier to Dortmund + Dortmund to Cologne + Cologne to Hamburg + Hamburg to Amsterdam + Berlin to Leipzig + Leipzig to Warsaw + Dusseldorf to Monchengladbach (return) + Dusseldorf to Cologne + Stuttgart to Frankfurt + Frankfurt to Oberursel | 15 |
| Greece | Athens to Thessaloniki + Thessaloniki to Kalambaka (return) + Thessaloniki to Skopje | 4 |
| Hungary | Budapest to Prague + Budapest to Bucharest | 2 |
| India | Agra to Delhi | 1 |
| Indonesia | Jakarta to Bogor + Yogyakarta to Surabaya + Surabaya to Banyuwangi | 3 |
| Ireland | Dublin to Cork | 1 |
| Italy | Genoa to Turin + Turin to Milan + Catania to Naples + Sorrento to Pompeii (return) + Sorrento to Naples + Pisa to Florence (return) + Venice to Rimini + Rimini to Ferrara + Ferrara to Milan + Milan to Interlaken + Milan to Genoa (Return) + Milan to Monza + Palermo to Agrigento + Agrigento to Syracuse + Syracuse to Taormina + Taormina to Catania + Bologna to Venice + Venice to Verona + Verona to Milan + Milan to Como + Como to Tirano + Tirano to Chur (Bernina Express) | 25 |
| Kosovo | Pristina to Hani i Zelit | 1 |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg to Brussels + Luxembourg to Ettelbruck (return) + Luxembourg to Trier | 4 |
| Macedonia | Skopje to Nis + Skopje to Belgrade | 2 |
| Malaysia | Johor Bahru to Singapore | 1 |
| Moldova | Chisinau to Odessa (Ukraine) | 1 |
| Montenegro | Bar to Podgorica | 1 |
| Morocco | Fes to Marrakech | 1 |
| Netherlands | Hoek of Holland to Amsterdam (twice) + Amsterdam to Munich + Amsterdam to Alkmaar + Amsterdam to Hoek of Holland (twice) + Amsterdam to Copenhagen + Amsterdam to Den Haag (return) + Amsterdam to Dusseldorf + London to Rotterdam + Rotterdam to Amsterdam | 10 |
| Norway | Oslo to Trondheim (twice) + Trondheim to Fauske (twice) + Narvik to Lulea (twice) + Oslo to Bergen + Bergen to Myrdal + Myrdal to Flam (return) + Myrdal to Oslo + Oslo to Gjøvik (return) + Trondheim to Hell (return twice) + Oslo to Moss (return), Trondheim to Fauske, Narvik to Abisko (Sweden) (return) | 22 |
| Peru | Puno to Cusco + Agua Caliente to Cusco | 2 |
| Poland | Warsaw to Krakow + Krakow to Budapest + Warsaw to Lodz (return) | 4 |
| Romania | Bucharest to Chisinau (Moldova) | 1 |
| Russia | Kaliningrad to Svetlogorsk (return) + Kaliningrad to Minsk | 3 |
| Serbia | Nis to Sofia + Belgrade to Sofia + Belgrade to Vrsac | 3 |
| Singapore | Singapore to Johor Bahru (Malaysia) | 1 |
| Slovenia | Maribor to Spielfeldstrasse + Ljubljana to Škofja Loka (return) + Ljubljana to Lesce Bled + Lesce Bled to Klagenfurt (Austria) | 5 |
| Spain | Santiago de Compostela to Madrid + Madrid to Barcelona + Madrid to Cordoba + Cordoba to Cadiz + Cadiz to Seville + Madrid to Segovia (return) + Denia to Alicante + Palma to Soller (return) + Barcelona to Sitges (return) + Barcelona to Montserrat (return) + Madrid to Toledo (return) | 16 |
| Sweden | Stockholm to Oslo + Lulea to Nice + Lulea to Kimi + Stockholm to Berlin via Malmo | 4 |
| Switzerland | Geneva to Interlaken + Interlaken to Bern + Bern to Geneva + Geneva to Lausanne (return) Interlaken to Montreux + Montreux to Lausanne + Lausanne to Paris + Chur to St Moritz + St Moritz to Zermatt + Zermatt to Zurich | 11 |
| Syria | Hama to Homs + Aleppo to Latakia (return) | 3 |
| Thailand | Bangkok to Thanaleng (for Vientiane, Laos) | 1 |
| Turkey | Istanbul to Thessaloniki (Greece) + Istanbul to Ankara + Ankara to Adana + Istanbul Pendik to Ankara + Ankara to Erzurum | 5 |
| Turkmenistan | Ashgabat to Mary | 1 |
| Ukraine | Sevastopol to Bakhchysarai (return) + Sevastopol to Simferopol + Simferopol to Lviv + Lviv to Kiev | 5 |
| Uzbekistan | Bukhara to Samarkand + Samarkand to Urganch + Urganch to Tashkent | 3 |
| Vietnam | Hue to Hanoi | 1 |
| Total Journeys | 280 (33) |
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Krakow Train Station, Poland
