I am currently on a rail journey of Graham Ellis proportions!

I have crossed (under) the Channel and my first continental change of trains was at an historic station that has recently undergone extensive works.

My next train was a cross-border  jointly operated inter-city service that took me to an interesting split-level station from which I have taken the train upon which I am now travelling to one of the largest cities in my destination country.

There I will take a local service to arrive in the wee small hours at my final destination. This is not too far from something that has featured in a number of posts on a thread on this forum  - but take care with that clue as it might mislead you.

Finally, I will be later at my destination due to the late running of the service I am on at present.

Can you work out my journey? I hope when I am back to do a longer post on it.

BTW, if you have been following Destination X on the telly, I am sorry I can't afford Rob Brydon to do a voice-over for this post....

 
Fun!  I can work out most ... but will leave it for others for 24 hours.  Enjoy.

 
Erm ... you're not in Ukraine, are you?  

 
I'm thinking that the split level station could be Osnabrück while the first station was possibly Rotterdam?

 
One out of two - yes to Osnabruck.

Grahame,  your 24 hour holdback is over - can you clear the board?

 

St Pancras - Amsterdam - Osnabroek - Hamburg - local train could be to Kiel, Rostock or Westerland, or indeed somewhere else on the Baltic or North Sea coast.   I am noting your comment to beware of being mislead on the final destination.  And "Baltic" - and mentioned - includes Wismar, Warnamunde, Rugen

I am pretty sure of Hamburg - if your big city had been further south in Germany, you would not have gone beyond Brussels on Eurostar, and had you been headed to Berlin you would not have changed at Osnabrouk  - that train from Amsterdam also goes on to the (multilevel) Berlin Hbf.

 
Almost, but no cigar Grahame. It's the last one that's wrong, not on the list of alternatives you have suggested.

If you (or anyone else) want to finish the puzzle, it's a destination that is within the range of distances from Hamburg suggested by Grahame......

 

Bremen perchance?

 

Unlikely as that would be doubling back from Hamburg. 

 

Yes, I see what you mean now.  I misinterpreted some of the info/replies. 
I'm thinking of Flensburg now.

 

As part of a longer trip that makes sense, as it's where the local trains from Germany and Denmark both end their runs.  There are a couple of major places along the way which would make for a good stop on a tour too.  There is another place - Tonder - where German and Danish local trains meet, but from Hamburg there would be an extra change at Niebull. 

 
Johnneyw is closer, but not close enough..

 

I suspect you were headed, then, to Cuxhaven


and if so, and updated report on how they're doing in covering movement of air (wind) into movement of people (on a train) via splitting and reforming water (electrolysis and hydrogen power) would be great.

 

May have misread that - Schleswig, Rendesburg (where the line north from Hamburg rises over the Kiel Canal) or Neumunster (where some of the suburban trains out from Hamburg to Kiel and Flensburg split, and there is a railway museum