Europe Rail News

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Rail Ambassadors present final report on European Year of Youth

Plans for standard gauge in all EU member states to be ready by 2025-26

They met on a European sleeper train. They've been married for nearly 30 years

🇦🇱 Albania

Tirana-Durres railway will be finished by 2024; PM

🇧🇪 Belgium

Belgium’s railway company launches half price winter tickets

Belgium bans smoking on all train stations from January

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Bulgarian railways’ new passenger train timetable takes effect

🇭🇷 Croatia

EU backs Croatia joining visa-free Schengen area from January

🇨🇿 Czechia

Czech Railways adding extra carriages over peak holiday times

🇪🇪 Estonia

Tallinn approves plan for Ülemiste passenger terminal 

Rail Baltica is the sort of infrastructure project every continent needs

🇫🇮 Finland

Finnish rail firm VR unveils new Swiss-designed commuter trains

A game changer for the world trade: The Arctic Railway? [YouTube]

🇫🇷 France

It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel

Emmanuel Macron promises to connect French cities to their outskirts with new rail network

France needs better slow trains, not just fast ones

🇩🇪 Germany

You can now get a train all the way from Germany’s Black Forest to Bordeaux

“French rail operator SNCF has announced a new weekly service from Freiburg to Bordeaux.”

Germany: DB opens Wendlingen–Ulm high-capacity line

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Transport secretary: Future of Great British Railways uncertain

The UK train that shouldn't exist

Eight best ski resorts you can travel to by train from London

Busiest and quietest railway stations in Britain revealed

Stark north-south divide in railway reliability, UK figures reveal

🇬🇷 Greece

Odontotos: Greece’s amazing cog railway of the Peloponnese

Rail track to connect Heraklio with new Kasteli airport on Crete

🇭🇺 Hungary

The daily delay of trains in Hungary is enormously big

🇮🇪 Ireland

'Into The West' campaign to restore North west railway gathering steam decades after tracks lifted

🇮🇹 Italy

Sicily introduces hybrid train that can run on electricity, battery and diesel

Orient Express: Welcome aboard La Dolce Vita in Italy, starting 2024

🇽🇰 Kosovo

The EU invests 91 million euros in Kosovo for railway lines

🇱🇻 Latvia

First Rail Baltica rail-line should be up and running by 2027 - Linkaits

Latvia and Estonia discuss return of Rīga-Tartu trains

🇱🇹 Lithuania

Lithuanian president would welcome Rail Baltica extension to Ukraine

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

Will France-Luxembourg high-speed railway be built and when?

🇲🇩 Moldova

Chisinau-Bucharest train to move daily

🇲🇪 Montenegro

Next Stop: The Future

“The EU supports the Montenegrin railways infrastructure upgrade.”

🇳🇱 Netherlands

New fast train between Brussels and Amsterdam

🇳🇴 Norway

Norway: Bane NOR opens high-speed Follobanen line

🇵🇱 Poland

Check out this spectacular new northern European train route

“A new rail route links up the Polish cities Kraków and Warsaw with Lithuanian hubs Kaunas and Vilnius.”

CPK starts design of the first high-speed railway line in Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

Rail journey of the month: Lisbon to Vigo via Porto, past dunes, rivers and the Atlantic

🇷🇴 Romania

Romania receives 60 million euros from the EU for the modernization of the railway infrastructure and the construction of a bridge over the Prut

The death of a railyard

“An abandoned railway depot at Fetești-Gară, Romania.”

🇸🇰 Slovakia

Unique forest railway is threatened, prompting petition

🇪🇸 Spain

Spain's new high-speed trains make it Europe's rail capital

Spain’s new high-speed train links Barcelona and Madrid for just €18

Spain’s Murcia finally has a high-speed train: What you need to know

FS Italiane aims to launch Paris-Barcelona high-speed trains by 2024

IRYO: Europe’s newest high-speed train is the best – here’s why… [YouTube]

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Switzerland’s nonstop train across the Alps will link three key resort towns

“In an historical first, the GoldenPass Express will connect Montreux, Gstaad and Interlaken via a speedy, technologically advanced rail ride—just in time for the winter holiday season.”

Switzerland named best in Europe for rail travel

🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukraine’s 15,000-mile lifeline

“How the country’s vast rail system has helped it withstand an invasion.”