| Daily services extended to give wider through trains Posted by grahame at 04:42, 10th June 2026 |     |
From the European Rail Timetable
Germany's ICE network has reached the Belgian coast. A new seasonal service now links Köln with Oostende via Brussels, Gent-Sint-Pieters and Brugge, offering a direct rail route to the North Sea. https://shorturl.at/vSFwt #RailTravel #ICE #Belgium
The ICE neteotk reached out with a number of of daily trains that fit into the hourly / 2-hourly pattern for their core journeys. We were on the Amsterdam - Munich train a couple of week ago, just missed one from Chur that was headed for Hamburg, and I have seen them on Rugen Island.
In the GWR area we have summer-only trains to Newquay, and to Tenby on Saturdays. Is there a case for more like this, and if so, to where? Is the case made by the financial railway case, or the broader economic and political benefits brought to the places served?
How about ... a Fishguard service that connects with the Rosslare boat? A Falmouth service? Bath to York and Edinburgh? etc. The UK seems to have pulled back from these services during and in the aftermath of covid, and yet with increased leisure traffic the case for them seems all the stronger.
