Europe Rail News: 19 January 2023
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Europe Rail News: 19 January 2023
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🇦🇹 Austria
ÖBB announces almost 3.4 billion euros in fresh rail investments
Night trains Vienna-Italy every day announced for summer 2023
Rail route of the month: through the Alps to the Adriatic – Vienna to Trieste
🇧🇪 Belgium
New Brussels to Berlin night train European sleeper to launch in May 2023
Smoking ban extended to cover all station platforms
🇭🇷 Croatia
Croatia has joined the eurozone - what that means for travelers
Life being breathed into Osijek railway station as works progress
🇨🇾 Cyprus
Railway more feasible for Cyprus than tram systems, Karousos says
🇨🇿 Czechia
Prague's airport railway line takes another step towards completion
Beer from a mobile minibar on a train breaks popularity records in the Czech Republic
🇪🇪 Estonia
Estonia: Rail Baltica awards design contract for seven regional stations
Estonia-Finland tunnel deeply pondered
🇫🇷 France
Five of France's best train journeys
French national rail service to begin phasing out paper tickets
Renfe plans to run new trains to France before summer following end of SNCF cooperation
“Spanish national operator Renfe wants to once again operate trains to France on the routes Madrid-Marseille and Barcelona-Lyon before the summer of 2023”.
🇬🇧 Great Britain
Pan-European sleeper train to sweep Britons to Berlin from May 2023
Construction work on a new train station in Bristol is due to begin early in 2023
Snowdon Mountain Railway to return to the summit for the first time since 2019
British Railway's last official train map of East Anglia
What does rail renationalisation mean and who owns the UK’s railways?
HS2: First steps on UK’s longest railway bridge
🇬🇷 Greece
A new European rail corridor will connect Black Sea and Mediterranean ports, bypassing the Bosphorus
🇮🇪 Ireland
Partition hastened closure of Irish railways
The era when Cork city had 5 railway stations
🇮🇹 Italy
The train routes connecting Italy to the rest of Europe in 2023
🇽🇰 Kosovo
EBRD and EU to invest in the upgrade of Kosovo’s railways
Kosovo towards the strengthening of railway connections with the region
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Rail Baltica has approved specific plans for Kaunas railway hub
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
New trains arrive in Luxembourg
🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Netherlands just welcomed a new night train (and southerners are going to love it!)
🇵🇱 Poland
Record number of passengers carried in Poland in 2022
🇷🇴 Romania
Romania to invest $400 million in the restoration of the railway to the border with Moldova
🇷🇸 Serbia
Serbia to finish Novi Sad-Subotica railway overhaul in 2024
🇪🇸 Spain
Spain greenlights extension of free train passes until year-end
Murcia to Madrid: Long awaited high-speed train ends the southeast's 'isolation'
CASH BID: €2bn asked for to expand Costa del Sol railway to Marbella, Estepona and Algeciras
🇸🇪 Sweden
Slow travel: Why London to Stockholm by train is worth the day-long journey
This dazzling new night train links two of Europe’s coolest cities
“Stockholm and Berlin are set to be linked by a new EuroNight service that’ll launch at the end of March.”
Sweden abandons high-speed program – International Railway Journal
🇨🇭 Switzerland
See the Alps through panoramic glass on a scenic train in Switzerland
Most delayed train service in Switzerland revealed