From
The Man at seat 61, news dated June 2020
Coronavirus update...1. Current Foreign Office travel advice: Since 17 March, the
UK▸ Foreign Office advises against all non-essential travel from the UK to anywhere globally, see
www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice. This is indefinite, so not clear when it will be lifted. Note that this invalidates most travel insurance. Everyone is advised to stay at home until further notice.
2. Most European & worldwide countries have been in lockdown, with limited or no international trains and reduced domestic trains. However, in late May and early June many are emerging from lockdown and international services are slowly resuming. At present only
EU» citizens are allowed to enter the EU unless on essential business or returning home, etc. To check which countries have closed their borders, which countries require you to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival & so on, see
www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice or check border status at railguideeurope.com/coronavirus.
3. The UK is introducing a (largely pointless, at this stage) 14-day quarantine from June for all arrivals into the UK, which the French government has countered with a similar voluntary one for arrivals in France from the UK. It's not known how long this will last. I give it 6 weeks before it folds...
To check if trains are running & whether borders are open...With everywhere affected worldwide, I won't be putting individual warning notes on all 367 pages on this site, so for real time info in a very fluid situation, please (a) see the excellent updates for European trains & individual border status at railguideeurope.com/coronavirus and/or (b) run an enquiry on the relevant journey planner (the one you'd normally use to buy tickets for that particular route or train). If you see prices and can buy tickets then it's running, if it says cancelled or doesn't show up, it isn't running.
Summary... I have quoted his excellent introduction and suggest members visit the site to read the rest - the summary. I was very tempted to quote the whole article - really good - but was possibly going to stray into Copyright territory, and it's his work and I would not want to take credit for it.
