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Rail Map of Europe

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This map shows the routes and relative frequency for trains, ferries and even some bus routes between major and minor destinations in western and southern Europe, including hundreds point-to-point travel times and even what hours those trains usually leave. There are a few cities shown as floating a bit off of the nearest train line even though trains do actually run there (Toledo, Spain and Assisi, Italy for example) and that's a bit confusing, but the map is generally helpful. Their inset close-up map of Switzerland is nice.

There's one big problem: they've dropped an inset map of northern Scandinavia right over the top of northeastern Europe! That's great for the hordes of tourists planning a boat tour of Lapland (?!) but as a result, there's little to no information here about the Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine or European Russia. Everything from Hungary/Romania and south is shown, clear to Istanbul and a detailed ferry map for the Greek Islands, and that's nice -- but people like me headed through central Europe to Moscow are out of luck. Other train maps do exist that show the whole continent. (Sorry, can't remember the brand of that one, spotted it in a bookstore this month.)

Map is fine unless your going to Eastern Europe, which is completely masked by an inset of Sweden and Finland. Apparently Publisher does not plan to go east anytime soon.

Rail map of Europe is made of a cheap grade of paper with NO info about rail rides. A waste of money!!! Ernest Jutras

This map did not provide me with th information I needed to plan a rail trip in Europe. It was very general and did not provide any references to obtain specific information on train schedules.