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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

🇺🇦 Ukraine

Riding the “Train of Hope” from Ukraine to Moldova