Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail gave young Europeans the freedom of the continent in the 1970s. Five decades on, people are still taking the train.
It’s 1972, you are in your late teens, and you see a poster at your local railway station which promises one month of unlimited train travel in 20 European countries for £27.50. Would you have been tempted? Perhaps you were one of the almost 88,000 backpackers who purchased an Interrail pass and took a trip during that first year of the scheme.
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