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...
by AERA | Apr 17, 2022 | General
It was April 1st when I made my first trip on the Harwich – Hoek van Holland ferry since 2020. Because of other commitments I found it convenient to stay the night in a hotel in Dovercourt and use the day sailing, coming back to England on the night sailing April...
by AERA | Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
AERA is in regular contact with Back-on-Track – a network of independent campaigns in many European countries for improved international services, especially night trains. Our Secretary (in an individual capacity) has taken part in their activities, including –by zoom...
by AERA | Aug 23, 2021 | General
Trevor Garrod Secretary, AERA tgarrod21@gmail.com This is European Year of Rail – though British readers may be forgiven for not knowing, since the fact has been barely publicised in the UK. It is regrettable that the UK Government has failed to support this...
by AERA | Sep 29, 2020 | Press Release
TRAINS ARE A SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL Because of COVID 19, some people have been claiming that trains are an unsafe way to travel, without providing any clear evidence to back their claim. Research in several European countries, including the UK, Germany, Austria, France...
by AERA | Aug 13, 2020 | Meetings
AERA held a General Meeting with zoom on July 29th. Members reviewed the changing travel scene as the Government advice on “essential travel only” was relaxed and replaced by emphasis on “safer travel.” We consider it is vital to have a joint...
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