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