Train travel round up

Brussels Airlines codeshares with Deutsche Bahn

Brussels Airlines has launched a codeshare with Deutsche Bahn, which will see the rail operator’s new Brussels Airport-Cologne route, effective September, bookable on the airline’s website.

Deutsche Bahn’s first train on the new connection will depart from Cologne on September 7 at 06h11. Two daily return trains on the route will make stops in Aachen, Liege and Leuven, before arriving at Brussels Airport. Afterwards, the train will continue to Antwerp. 

Agatha Christie expert joins Golden Eagle tour

Golden Eagle Luxury Trains will host Agatha Christie expert, academic, historian and speaker, Mark Aldridge, on the upcoming Paris to Istanbul journey, the same route that Agatha Christie travelled on the Orient Express. 

Departing May 23 on the Danube Express, Aldridge will host guests talks throughout the journey.  

Guests will experience one night at the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul where Christie famously stayed and allegedly wrote parts of Murder on the Orient Express.