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The brakeman

In Vermont, a brakeman decouples cars on a freight train traveling from Canada to Massachusetts. In North America, a brakeman is someone who couples (puts together) and decouples (separates) train cars. Learn 11 more combinations with the prefix de-.

Please change at the next stop

Colin Beaven: "You have to plan your moves carefully."

Headless in San Francisco. Photo: Jan Stuermann

Don't lose your head!

A (headless?) passenger waits for the morning train from Oakland to San Francisco, California. Some idioms with "head" are the same as in German. Find out which ones they are.

Travel: Canada by rail

Writer Claudia Hellmann explored Canada’s West from a luxury passenger train. Listen to the beginning of the story now, and see if you can answer two questions.

At the train station

Whether you're meeting your loved ones or starting a journey yourself, train stations can be romantic places. Anna Hochsieder presents words to describe them.

Cavallo Point Lodge: aerial view. Photo by www.cavallopoint.com

How the other half holidays

You're in Delhi and would like to spend an afternoon at the Taj Mahal. No problem. You can be in Agra in an hour thanks to Greaves, a specialist travel company, which has invested in a Super King Air B200 plane. This is how the rich travel.

People show their love for each other with words and flowers.

If music be the food of love, travel on

"Age does not protect you from love. But love protects you from age." — Anaïs Nin. She was the lover of such literary greats as Henry Miller, Antonin Artaud and Edmund Wilson. So, in the spirit of ageless love, let's go looking for romance.

Travel: Iron road to the Highlands

In this month's magazine, we have a very special travel feature: we take you on a trip on Scotland's West Highland Railway. Why not sit back with a bottle of Scotch and listen to an excerpt read by Jonathan Sharp?

How not to get to Cardiff

"I asked the guard whether the train stopped in Cardiff."

Getting America back on track

"Tourists are lucky if they've heard of Amtrak, yet for a reasonable price, they can travel quite comfortably across the entire country — without having to stare at the road or take off their shoes and belts in front of strangers."

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