Does any TZer or one of their family members have any recent experience using an Interrail pass?

I enjoy a long train journey and am toying with the idea of several weeks meandering around Europe.

However, my first impression is that leaving the UK on Eurostar and getting through France quickly using an Interrail pass is not that simple. Seats associated with the pass are limited, seat reservations are mandatory and then not available.

I’m thinking it’s not as a good a deal as it seems and am wondering if just buying an unrestricted ticket to somewhere like Trieste, Vienna, Zagreb or Ljubljana and then hopping about and buying tickets as I go along might be a better idea.

Any experiences would be appreciated.

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Apparently the biggest working steam engine in the world.

Worthington Simpson triple expansion engine, Newark. A pair were purchased in 1929, £94,000! Same type of engines on the Titanic.

Pumped water up to a reservoir in north London to supply central London and the East End.

The sight, the smell, the sound!

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Three of a kind(ish)

40s USAAF Bulova A11 in silver case
50s USAF Bulova A17A
60s-80s USAF Hamilton GG-W-113

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