How sleeper trains became the great comeback kids
Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny waxes lyrical about the joys of travelling by sleeper train – and suggests five fantastic journeys
Travel 2,700 miles across Australia on the Indian Pacific
At just after 9.15pm each weeknight, I hear a familiar sound from outside the window of my north London flat. The gentle whine of the locomotive pulling the Caledonian Sleeper as it passes through Camden Town a few minutes after its departure from Euston station. Sometimes I open the blind and look down to the cutting below, watching the dark green metal snake, 13-carriages long, as it begins its journey north.