The following weekend we moored at the port of Civitavecchia, a short hop from Rome on a specially chartered private train.

On June 7, 2001, 47 Easy Company veterans were flown to Paris and then travelled by chartered train to the site, where the series premiered.

Comprising some 1,300 men, this unit traveled by chartered train, stopping first in Kishinev (Chişinău).

But the 17- to 25-vehicle convoy of buses, vans and escort cars gave way in St. Louis to a 15-car chartered train pulled by three locomotives.

This year, the 70th, was no different; the chartered train was sold out.

Since 2002 only chartered logging trains and a tourist train have been run (Loko Tour).

Since then there have been numerous tours and chartered logging trains.

Three chartered trains transported Liverpool supporters to Sheffield for a match fixture in 1988, but only one such train ran in 1989.

The special chartered train carrying the men up from Texas stopped at Casper.

A chartered train with 598 passengers ran from London to Bath, Somerset and Oxford.