by AERA | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Association of European Rail Agents’ Annual General Meeting was held this year in Ghent, Belgium – courtesy of Eurostar, SNCB Belgian Railways, Visit Gent, Visit Flanders and Gent Watertoerist, to all of whom we are most grateful for their kindness and...
by AERA | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by AERA | Nov 28, 2024 | By Trevor Garrod
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...
by AERA | Nov 21, 2022 | By Trevor Garrod, General
Three times this year I have travelled rail/sea/rail on the Harwich – Hoek van Holland route. When I most recently disembarked from the night ferry at Hoek van Holland, I found a queue of a dozen people in front of the ticket vending machine. The couple at the front...
by AERA | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Trevor Garrod For over two decades I have organised group visits by train to the Continent, using the services of an AERA member, and had one such group booked to go to Montpellier in May 2020. Obviously the visit had to be postponed more than once, but almost all...
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