The resurgence of the sleeper train in Europe heralds a return to the romance and adventure of travel — whether you want to journey into the Arctic Circle on a snowy night or sip champagne between damask sheets on a trip through Italy.

Teresa Levonian Cole climbs aboard the latest iteration of the Orient Express for a sybaritic journey to the ‘underground city’ of Matera

Forget about exhausting sight-seeing holidays and delayed flights – it’s time to embrace luxury train travel, says Jessica Salter

RAIL Columnist

Since my first visit in 1982, four-up in a road-test Jaguar XJ-S HE, Rétromobile has regularly blown me away. The range of incredible Gallic machines always make this Paris show a much-awaited fixture

In the first of two columns, Vitali Vitaliev recalls his life’s most important train journey