Robert Schwandl's Urban Rail Blog

While staying in Alicante, I took a day trip to Murcia , only an hour and a half on an old diesel train they painted in Cercanías colours...

I've spent the last days of the year 2012 in Alicante , a city I hadn't been to since the early 1980s, so as far as urban rail is...

Although I frequently visit Spain, I had not been back to Valencia since the year 2000 when I was preparing my first book 'Metros in ...

I used to live in Barcelona from 1989 to 2001, so I know its metro and other urban rail systems pretty well from everyday experience, whic...

While staying for a couple of days in Los Angeles, I took a day trip (8 Aug 2012) down to Oceanside to test the Sprinter and then take a f...

My last stop on this year's U.S. tour was Los Angeles. I had already been here in 2008, and as it is actually a city I wouldn't go...

After an 18-hour train ride on the Coast Starlight from Portland, OR, I arrived in Richmond, CA with only a 30 minutes delay. Richmond st...