Europe Rail News: 21 July 2022

Interrail travel pass turns 50

Europe Rail News

Interrail travel pass turns 50

Business travelers are ditching planes for Eurostar trains to avoid travel chaos and flight delays

Europe wants a high-speed rail network to replace airplanes

Eight amazing European train journeys

Flight-free travel: These high-speed train lines get you around Europe just as fast as a plane

Europe's 10 most beautiful train travel routes

🇦🇱 Albania

Durrës-Prishtina railway: a dream towards reality?

🇦🇹 Austria

ÖBB’s Upper Austria railway modernization plan will see 81% of lines electrified

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

First train in 10 years to head from Sarajevo to Ploce

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

EU Commission approves 110 mln euro cohesion grant for western Bulgaria railway upgrade

🇭🇷 Croatia

Is the creation of a Croatian fast train network a pipe dream?

Jon Worth EU cross border rail project comes to Croatia: Oh dear!

Check out the first Zagreb-Zadar express train service which launched 54 years ago

🇨🇿 Czechia

Development of the railway connection to Prague airport marks a new milestone

🇫🇮 Finland

Finnish plans for an Arctic railway  –  geopolitics are intervening

🇫🇷 France

Flight-free travel: Check out France's sleek new sleeper trains built from upcycled carriages

🇩🇪 Germany

Will Germany’s €9 train scheme be extended? Politician proposes €365 annual pass

Rail route of the month: from Bohemia towards the Baltic coast

Germany’s Deutsche Bahn railway joins Star Alliance

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Great British Railways: Shortlist announced of towns bidding for HQ

No one is in charge of Britain’s chaotic railways

🇬🇷 Greece

Greece’s rail operator TrainOSE renamed Hellenic Train S.A.

Greece's new 'high speed' train - the NEW life of the ETR 470 Cisalpino

🇭🇺 Hungary

Budapest’s iconic Nyugati railway station revamp gets EU support

🇮🇹 Italy

Rome's Fiumicino airport unveils direct high-speed rail links with Naples and Florence

New railway connection to Venice Airport gets 644-million-euro price tag

Crossing the sea on a train is plain sailing

Yes, this adorable Fiat van-based train is real, and it’s your friend

How to fall in love on a train (not your commute)

🇱🇹 Lithuania

Lithuania has no plans to relaunch Vilnius-Minsk passenger train services

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

One of Europe’s smallest nations tries a big idea: free public transit

🇳🇱 Netherlands

NS and Alstom unveil the first new Coradia Stream train

What’s faster? Watch us race from London to Amsterdam by plane and train

🇲🇰 North Macedonia

Kovachevski: The railway to Bulgaria becomes a reality after 30 years with the investment of 200 million euros

🇵🇱 Poland

Orient Express to come back on the rails thanks to original carriages found in Poland

🇪🇸 Spain

Spain announces free rail journeys from September until the end of the year

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Why Swiss trains are the best in Europe

Switzerland once had a Starbucks cafe located on a train

Plans for new night train network to connect Swiss and European cities

🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukraine and Moldova to resume railway connection on Berezino-Bessarabka section

Return to Kyiv by night train