Europe Rail News: 16 February 2023

Europe’s most underrated scenic railways, a brand-new sleeper train could soon link Amsterdam and Barcelona, and the highest rail route in northern Europe.

Europe Rail News

Europe’s most underrated scenic railways

Germany, Italy, Spain: Crossing the EU by train will be faster and cheaper on these new routes

Flight-free travel: The best new European train routes launching in 2023 and 2024

Eurostar unveils new rebrand as part of Thalys merger

A high-speed rail network from the Baltics to Central Europe is one step closer

Study proposes massive expansion of Europe’s high speed rail network

Six of Europe’s best slow, scenic rail journeys

A thought-provoking rail odyssey through the Balkans

🇧🇪 Belgium

Kortrijk Railway Station, Kortrijk, Belgium

“The iconic building is now threatened to be demolished for the development of a new station.”

🇭🇷 Croatia

Zagreb airport and city centre to be connected by train 

🇨🇿 Czechia

Flight-free travel: New night train links Prague and Zurich via Germany

‘Like knocking down the Eiffel tower’: battle to save historic Prague bridge

“A plan from Czech railways to replace the emblematic landmark with a modern structure is facing an impassioned backlash.”

🇩🇰 Denmark

World’s longest underwater rail-road tunnel to connect Germany and Denmark

🇪🇪 Estonia

Baltic States discuss Vilnius – Riga – Tallinn passenger service and gauge conversion

🇫🇮 Finland

Night train tickets to Finnish ski resorts in demand (and tax-free)

🇫🇷 France

Question mark raised over future of Eurostar Disneyland Paris link

France plans national public transport ticket by 2025

🇩🇪 Germany

France and Germany promise direct Paris-Berlin trains from 2024

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Slow travel: From London to Edinburgh aboard the Caledonian Sleeper

HS2 will run through to London Euston, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says

HS2: ministers to cut services and speeds to drive down costs, reports say

Return train tickets are expected to be scrapped across the UK under new reforms

British Pullman reimagines murder mystery train journeys

Seven course fine-dining lunch with champagne on Britain's most luxurious train coming to the North East

Flying Scotsman trips in 2023 – 100th anniversary

🇭🇺 Hungary

Using a railway carriage as a bridge

🇮🇪 Ireland

Review of Ireland's rail network set to propose restoring old lines in place of greenways

Calls to restore historic West Cork train lines ahead of Irish Rail Review

Irish Rail considering installing vending machines on trains 

🇮🇹 Italy

Italy launches new Rome-Milan high speed train: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Discover the Abruzzo region with the Italian ‘Trans-Siberian’ railway

🇽🇰 Kosovo

EIB lends 38 mln euro to Kosovo for railway overhaul project

🇲🇨 Monaco

A picture postcard: Monaco-Monte-Carlo station

🇲🇪 Montenegro

Financing secured for Bar – Vrbnica rail modernisation

🇳🇱 Netherlands

A brand-new sleeper train could soon link Amsterdam and Barcelona

Amsterdam to Venice by train: The best places to stop along the way and what to see

🇳🇴 Norway

The highest rail route in northern Europe

A journey through northern Europe’s longest railway tunnel

🇵🇹 Portugal

Portugal takes first step to introducing a single public transport ticket for entire country

🇪🇸 Spain

Spanish state railway company eyes first cross-border service to France

🇸🇪 Sweden

Alight here for the aurora borealis: on the Arctic Circle train to northern Sweden

SJ begins countdown to new Stockholm-Berlin night train

New rail service planned through Norway, Sweden and Denmark to Hamburg

“Plans for a new rail service running from Oslo and stopping in Gothenburg, Malmö and Copenhagen before arriving in Hamburg are in the works, Swedish state-owned rail operator SJ has said.”

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Lucerne to Interlaken on the GoldenPass Train Line

Destination perfection: what we can learn from the Swiss railways

The 10 most delayed trains in Switzerland in 2022 revealed

🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukrainian Railways to study first high-speed rail line to Poland in European gauge