News EUROPEAN PASSENGERS’ FEDERATION AND “NEW EUROSTAR” For more than a decade, AERA has been an associate member of the European Passengers’ Federation which brings together public transport users’organisations and related bodies in 20 different European countries....

An Interrail Passholder’s tale

An Interrail Passholder’s tale  Just as with road and air travel, whilst the vast majority of journeys go smoothly, occasonally not everything goes according to plan. AERA exists to promote travel by rail, but it also has a duty to hold the train operators to account...

Using the Newhaven – Dieppe Ferry

For 30 years Eurostar has been the fast rail services from England to France, using the Channel Tunnel. But there  are still alternatives, one of which is the Newhaven – Dieppe ferry run by DFDS. Indeed this was traditionally  the cheapest cross-Channel route from...