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Rail Journeys

Around the world beautiful historic train stations are being saved from demolition by transforming into hotels (Credit: The Tokyo Station Hotel)

Four hotels that capture the romance of the rails

By Lynn Brown

Silver and red train on track next to the sea in Sicily (Credit: Alamy)

The European train that travels by sea

By Lottie Limb

A tram on the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man (Credit: Alamy)

Nine of the world's most unforgettable train trips

By Lynn Brown

Exterior of Hopetown Darlington open-air railway museum in Darlington (Credit: Mike MacEacheran)

The small English town that changed global travel

By Mike MacEacheran

Close up of female server holding a bottle of sake and glasses on a tray on Japan's Shu*Kura sake train (Credit: Kitty Knowles)

A ride on Japan's joyful 'sake train'

By Paul Carter and Kitty Knowles

Skyline of New Orleans with Mississippi River at dusk (Credit: Alamy)

The triumphant return of the US's Gulf Coast train

By Ellie Seymour

The hills of the Serranía de Ronda (Credit: Alamy)

Spain's 135-year-old scenic British train line

By Andrew Lofthouse

Exterior of Canfranc Estacion in the Spanish Pyrenees (Credit: Richard Collett)

Sleep at 'Europe's unluckiest train station'

By Richard Collett

A train passes through forest and farmland in the Vouga Valley (Credit: Katie Wright)

A nostalgic train ride through Portugal

By Katie Wright

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, viewed through an archway (Credit: Getty Images)

What Santiago's many 'Camino' pilgrims often miss

By Norman Miller

Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man with a view of the land and ocean behind (Credit: Alamy)

The British Isles' only electric mountain railway

By Mike MacEacheran

Alishan Forest Railway entering tunnel in Taiwan (Credit: Wu Ming-Han)

Taiwan's epic train ride through 50 tunnels

By Tamara Hinson

Blue agave plants seen from the Tequila Express as it travels from Guadalajara to Tequila (Credit: Jamie Fullerton)

Mexico's famous Tequila Express train returns

By Jamie Fullerton

The Far North Line cutting through Scotland's Flow Country (Credit: Alamy)

Scotland's most remote railway adventure

By Paula Hotti

View of Visakhapatnam Kirandul Passenger Special train curling around a bend with a lush forest to the right (Credit: Anita Rao Kashi)

A 58-tunnel train through India's Eastern Ghats

By Anita Rao Kashi

Passengers can hop on and off the Baltic Express to explore towns and cities along the route (Credit: České dráhy)

Central Europe's new hop-on hop-off train

By Tristan Rutherford