In Switzerland you're not allowed to do your shopping on Sundays as a general rule – except for at railway stations. And, about 20 years ago, even on board trains as a trial…

Orange trains, amazing interchanges, and the obsession with the "big egg" — suggestively-named stadia, futuristically-designed stations, and a smart ticketing and seat assignment system on Taiwan High Speed Rail. Looking back at my 2010 journey there...

Here's a look at the rest of the Beijing Subway network... those without numbers in their line names. Including trams, maglevs, and airport links!

The Beijing Subway is a genuine Brobdingnagian Monstrosity with close to 30 lines at a mere glance. Today, here's a look at all the lines with NUMERALS in it... because a fair number more have NAMES! (We haven't even done the trams and maglev yet!)

What's not to love about Zürich main station (Zürich Hauptbahnhof)? You can hop on a train across the city, across the country, or across the continent. That, for one, is to be loved. Less loved, though, are the many — at times feeling even helter-skelter — platform areas. David Feng, as a Swiss from Zürich, helps you sort this out!

The plan to give Switzerland's most populous city a metro line failed at the ballot box, yet even before voters sent those plans to that great big train shed in the sky, a few parts of the network was already built — and can be visited today, to see what would have been quite an ambitious network...

The Jubilee, Central, even Waterloo & City lines are often packed with passengers. Ditto for the Northern, Piccadilly, even District lines, and of course, the Bakerloo. Yet the Metropolitan was here first... and is often a bit lost, or more likely, forgotten, in the crowds. But travel on the Met, and you'll experience quite a different London Underground...

Picking the very best seat is now all the rage on trains — get Seat 61! No, Seat 3F! But what about the 6-person compartments... they're there, but not everywhere now. Have the way we're getting around by rail changed as compartments onboard seem to be less frequently seen?

Zürich is known for its rail megahub, but there's also a lake — and alongside it, both local and even international railway routes, as well as tiny stations on the causeway by Rapperswil you might never have heard of!...

Covid and locked borders won't make Portugal-Singapore happen overnight as the longest rail journey which can be travelled on by passengers... so here's one I did before across borders (Beijing-Hong Kong via sleeper and HSR, this was before Covid...)