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There are things I would try doing and there are the others. Attempting to enter Russia before my visa is valid (or attempt to overstay my Russian visa) even if by a few hours only clearly belongs to …

Building on the previous answers: If you notice a condition where any sensible mind would think that it is extremely dangerous for the train to continue moving. Dangerous here can mean: If another …

The main difficulty, and why not everything is simply numbered 1 to whatever is when through carriages change trains and need to fit in to more than one numbering set. … These are typically two trains with adjacent train numbers, one even one odd. And it entirely makes sense for one to run exactly in the reverse direction of the other. …

Occasionally, the first class is opened to second class passangers (more likely on regional trains, though, where the price difference is less). …

Trains are still running across the Öresund bridge. … The Øresundståg regional trains are split in Kastrup according to all timetables I saw. I assume the procedure to be exit, go through the controls, reenter the next train. …

I am aware that when booking trains in Sweden via SJ.se, I can choose between non-rebookable non-refundable tickets, rebookable but non-refundable ones and refundable ones. … In case this varies by train company and depending on whether I am taking long-distance or regional trains, please consider long-distance trains preferentially and SJ trains as a second preference. …

In some trains (anything that goes Hamburg–Copenhagen pops up to mind) there may be not as much space, so also spaces between back-to-back seats are also used. … I have not yet come across a luggage car or any other way to store luggage away from oneself in the countries I mentioned except for historic trains operating only on special occasions. …

It is run with steam trains that leave from a dedicated platform at Bad Doberan mainline station and for a lot of its path runs through rural countryside towards the seaside towns of Heiligendamm (known … They run steam-powered trains and sometimes diesel-powered railcars to Wernigerode, the top of the Brocken hill (1141 m above sea level) and Quedlinburg. …

However, the all-knowing Man in Seat 61 confirms: No problems have been reported by any westerners using the direct Russian Railways trains from Paris, Nice, Vienna, Berlin, Prague or Warsaw to Moscow …

Seat reservations in German trains are only a thing in long distance trains (marked EC/IC or ICE if serviced by DB but can also include the Austrian RJ, the French TGV, the Thalys or other European railways … TGV, Thalys) and night trains if in a berth. …

DB is running the trains into and out of Frankfurt (I assume they will all be ICEs) and they are selling you a ticket for the entire journey which may even be tied to specific trains (for a lower price … previous train being delayed, you are automatically allowed to take whichever the next train to your destination is; i.e. even if your ticket was once tied to a train it is no more (exceptions apply to trains …

Since German railways do not see themselves as competent enough to offer night trains with sleeper cars, you are either restricted to a night in a sitting train or one at a station (one connection I can …

So far I have always had punctual trains in Sweden (or if they were late, it was always the final Swedish leg outbound to Copenhagen) so I have not yet had a problem. … where I can find information on these minimum transfer times so that I can avoid unpleasant surprises.[2] In case there is no comprehensive database available, the stations I would most likely change trains …

For trains that operate within the European Union under the directive 95/18/EC (that is basically any train except for regional, urban and suburban transport plus the car shuttles through the Channel Tunnel …

Note that this answer is written concerning the ICE trains Hamburg–Copenhagen. … The situation will be different on other trains with compulsory reservation such as night trains (CNL and EN until December, only EN after that) or other high-speed trains (e.g. Thalys). …