Robert Schwandl's Urban Rail Blog

Flying back on an orange plane from Pisa tomorrow, I took the chance to make a quick stop in Genova (Genoa) to see their latest additi...

I had two days in Milan (5-6 March) to update myself on the latest developments, the most exciting being, of course, the brand new M5. Sin...

On my way from the automatic metro in Brescia to the next in Milan I made a stopover in Bergamo, about halfway between the two, to see it...

As winter has been long and grey back home and I felt that this might be one of the last chances in Europe to see a completely new metro s...

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 ...