Robert Schwandl's Urban Rail Blog

After exploring the urban rail systems of Helsinki, I took the modern Allegro train to St. Petersburg.When I visited Moscow in 2010,...

[Edit May 2018: After another visit 5 years later I have made some updates you can find here ] Besides doing a bit of sight-seeing, of...

Staying in Helsinki for a few days to explore the different urban rail systems, I took one day off (12 June 2013) to hop across the Balt...

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...