Europe Rail News: 2 September 2021
Europe Rail News: 2 September 2021
Call for Faro-Seville rail link, new night train from Stockholm to Hamburg, hydrogen trains, and more Europe rail news.
Europe Rail News
Europe
Hyperloops and sleeper trains: The tech making rail travel in Europe more accessible than ever
Austria
Austrian Airlines pilots baggage drop-off on trains
Belgium
Belgian trains will almost return to normal by October
Bulgaria
How People of Sofia is getting Bulgarians back on the rails
Great Britain
Liverpool City Region receives new Merseyrail trains from Stadler
Bolton to Wigan railway line to be electrified in major £78m upgrade
Greece
Intercity trains reintroduced as of Wednesday
Hungary
Nyugati railway station passenger terminal opens after revamp
You can try Hungary’s new tram-trains soon!
”The special tram-train vehicles running between Hódmezővásárhely and Szeged received the permit. Now comes a test phase in which vehicles have to run fifty thousand kilometres. Each hybrid tram must pass the test without failure before it can be used by passengers.”
Italy
Italy’s Apennine railway eyes conversion to hydrogen
Moldova
Chisinau-Odessa train route to be resumed on 28 August
“Railway of Moldova state enterprise announced that starting tomorrow, the Chisinau-Odessa train route will be resumed.”
Poland
Preparatory work underway for 1,000km of new railways in Polish megaproject
Portugal
Call for Faro-Seville rail link
“Business organisations in the Algarve and Andalusia are to hand a formal request to both the governments of Spain and Portugal calling for a rail link between the airports of Faro and Seville.”
Serbia
EIB chief for Western Balkans: Belgrade-Nis high-speed railway part of EU plans
Sweden
Alstom – Coradia iLint hydrogen train runs for the first time in Sweden
SJ wins night train tender Stockholm-Hamburg
“Swedish state railways SJ has won the procurement to run a new night train from Stockholm to Hamburg in Germany. Called SJ EuroNight, the night trains will be part of the network of European night trains which is growing and becoming increasingly popular again.”
Switzerland
Ukraine
EUR 500 million from Switzerland to be spent for renovation of the Ukrainian train fleet