UK to the Alps by Train | Can you skip the plane and take the train when you have a bike?

In issue 127 of Singletrack magazine Mark and wife Vic decide that the environmental impact of flying with a bike is just too much. So instead of taking the plane they decide to take the train. In fact they take 6 trains - each way. From the feature... As I start writing this, the strongest hurricane on record, Dorian, is battering the Bahamas. I’ve just read an article telling me that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than even the worst-case predictions of just a few years ago. The planet is heating up and it’s our fault. Change on a global scale will only happen when populations act, but the act of populations is made up of individuals each making a choice for themselves. The choices we each make, no matter how seemingly insignificant, add up. One of the biggest impacts we have as individuals on the planet right now and, therefore, one of the biggest differences we can affect, is flying. No matter how you spin it, if you want to make a difference one of the best ways to do it is to simply fly less. That’s a bastard when the best places in the world to ride are two countries over. But there is a way… The journey I’ll admit from the off that this plan wasn’t mine. My wife is the reckless adventurer in our house, not me. She came up with the idea after a conversation about the ball-ache that is boxing up a bike and dragging it from home to the airport before handing it over to baggage handlers – we watched them throw a bike box around the tarmac while we squeezed into the 28 inches of legroom on an easyJet flight to Geneva. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just rock up at the railway station on bikes and just do the whole thing by train? No boxes. No letting the bikes out of our sight. Just ride door to door on trains for the long bits. There’s even a train platform right outside the Bike Verbier chalet where we were headed.... Singletrack Premier members can enjoy the rest of this feature here.. https://singletrackworld.com/2019/10/singletrack-issue-127-verbier-by-train/