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7 sustainable train journeys new for 2022 - in pictures

January 06, 2022 at 9:15 am EST
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1. Wake up in Prague on European Sleeper's new summer service from Brussels. Unsplash / William Zhang
2. Travel with Golden Eagle Luxury Trains aboard the luxurious Habsburg Express. Photo: Andrea Peto
3. Start your flight-free journey from London to Morocco in St Pancras Station.
Skiers wearing protective face masks ride a ski lift before hitting the slopes with the Matterhorn mountain as landscape above the ski resort of Zermatt in the Swiss Alps on November 28, 2020. - In non-EU Switzerland, which has been hard-hit by the second wave of Covid-19, the authorities, ski and tourism sectors have stood united behind the decision to keep the winter season going as EU countries debate a bloc-wide ban on ski holidays to curb coronavirus infections. "In Switzerland, we can go skiing, with protection plans in place," Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset told reporters on November 26, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
Central Japan Railway Co.'s N700 series Shinkansen bullet train travels past Mount Fuji, in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, April 30, 2010. The Japanese government in April arranged for the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation to lend money to U.S. projects to build high-speed links. Central Japan Railway, the operator of Japan's busiest bullet train line, has said that it is interested in bidding for projects in Florida and California. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
6. Escape to the Scottish Highlands and Islands via train and take in stunning scenery, lochs, forests and more.
7. A new overnight service from Vienna will whisk guests to Romania's Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Photo: Visit Cluj

1. Wake up in Prague on European Sleeper's new summer service from Brussels. Unsplash / William Zhang

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