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  • July 9, 2026
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Sarah W
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Picture a place where people who love exploring Europe come together. Where unexpected detours become the best stories, strangers become friends, and every journey inspires the next.

We're looking for a name.

Not a name for a website or an app, but for us. A community that celebrates curiosity, connection, adventure, and the magic of discovering Europe by rail.

If this community could call itself anything, what would it be?

Share your ideas below. One word, two words, something completely original... we're excited to see what you come up with. 💙✨

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ralderton
Railmaster
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  • Railmaster
  • July 9, 2026

Lonely Planet called their community The Thorn Tree, after notes that travellers used to leave for each other on the branches of a Naivasha thorn tree in a hotel in Nairobi. 

Some similar ideas that might work here:

 The Whistlestop Cafe

 Continental Cafe

 Platform One

 Open Ticket

 


Dagi
Railly clever
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  • Railly clever
  • July 9, 2026

Tales on rails


Rails, tales, tracks & hacks 

 

 


Sarah W
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  • Author
  • Community Manager
  • July 10, 2026

I love your suggestions ​@ralderton and ​@Dagi. I didn’t know this about the Lonely Planet community! 


hapé
Full steam ahead
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  • Full steam ahead
  • July 10, 2026

Window on Wheels
Rolling Windows

Thats’s what just popped up in my mind. Have fun with getting many ideas.


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  • Engin-ius
  • July 10, 2026

A lot of the good ones are gone with all the YouTubers and/or Kraftwerk lyrics.  I’ll have to get my thinking cap on.

 

A to B (struck out)

A to E (with smaller font ‘urope’)

 

As in, it’s more than just a ticket from A to B, it’s A to Europe . . . at which point Europe Endless by Kraftwerk plays in my head.


Taisiasr
Keeps calm and carries on
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  • Keeps calm and carries on
  • July 20, 2026

The enthEUsiasts 


Sarah W
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  • Author
  • Community Manager
  • July 20, 2026

@zagmund That’s a great song! I had never heard it before. Thanks for the inspiration :)


  • Rail rookie
  • September 9, 2026

Can five strangers from five European countries become a real friend group in four weeks?

 

I don't think we're meant to have hundreds of online contacts and still feel like we have nobody to call when life gets difficult.

I want to build a small group of people from different European countries who actually become close friends.

We would travel, play, learn, volunteer, help each other with real-life problems and eventually meet and possibly live together.

But I don't know whether a group of strangers can actually become something like that.

So I'm testing it.

Four weeks. A few Europeans. No membership fee. No long-term commitment. Just meet, talk, do things together and see what happens.

If it works, we'll build further.


ralderton
Railmaster
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  • Railmaster
  • September 11, 2026

Reported post from Levi99 as spam & AI


  • Rail rookie
  • September 11, 2026

Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe I wrote this to wrong topic

 I'm new here, I didn't know, where can I write this...