A recent issue of The Times has a fairly detailed section on rail travel today  this section includes a survey of the state of European rail travel (summary: it's enjoying a renaissance  thanks to Eurostar and environmental consciousness  likely to improve further when cheap flights dry up  though ticketing still has some way to go before booking international rail journeys is as easy as booking flights)  a section on travelling across Europe on Inter-Rail passes (along with four recommended European rail journeys to make with one's pass)  as well as articles on train travel in Italy and India  shinkansen journeys in Japan  the backpacker-infested Trans-Siberian Express (whose 1-week journey time  the previous article notes  could be slashed to 18 hours if it was rebuilt using maglev technology soon to be deployed in Japan)  as well as various luxury train journeys  such as the current holder of the "Orient Express" trademark (an opulent art-deco train journey from London to Verona)  the Canadian Rockies and opulent Hungarian luxury trains