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Train is the way to go. It is picturesque travel. In times when people are just jetting around, rail travel gives travelers the much-needed breathing space between board meetings, sight seeing, etc. Train travel, if coupled with superior service and fine dining on board, can turn into an experience we would wish to have again and again. I have traveled most of Europe by euro rail. I loved the journey. It was winter, the trains were nearly empty and I simply soaked in the breath-taking views that I saw. The most unforgettable one was in the wee hours of the morning, on the way to Salzburg, Austria, when I miraculously opened my sleepy eyes to behold the famed Danube river with snow-capped mountains in the backdrop! It was like a picture painting that???s still etched like a beautiful memory in the pages of my mind. Simply wow! Kanan Divecha, Mumbai, India

As a schoolchild I wrote an essay on the well run French Railways, some 50 years ago and then watched successive British Governments destroy the British Rail System. Rail is the transport of the future.