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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.
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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
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
Europe Rail News: 16 February 2023
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