Europe Rail News: 24 February 2022

Europe's new train routes for 2022

Europe Rail News

Europe's new train routes for 2022

Snooze on the move: Why sleeper trains are the future of transcontinental travel

🇦🇱 Albania

Durrës-Pristina railway's feasibility study near completion

🇦🇹 Austria

New Brno-Vienna rail connection would allow train traffic to take off

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Bulgaria plans to spend 511 mln euro on new trains - report

🇨🇿 Czechia

AFRY : to design a strategic railway connection to Prague International Airport

Czech Republic to spend $2.5 billion on railway infrastructure

🇫🇮 Finland

Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel can open up rail in Finland and Estonia: ‘we love competition’

🇫🇷 France

SNCF Voyageurs and Alstom present hybrid train in France

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Public competition launched to find new home for Britain’s railways

“Headquarters for Great British Railways will be based outside of London and bring high-skilled jobs to the winning location.”

New rail line planned for central Cardiff

🇭🇺 Hungary

EU Cohesion policy: €80 million for modernisation of a railway line between Szajol and Debrecen in Hungary

The story of Budapest’s Déli Pályaudvar, the sensual modernist train station condemned as an eyesore | Concrete Ideas

🇮🇪 Ireland

Overcrowded trains will soon be thing of past, vows Irish Rail boss

Cork to Dublin and Belfast trains will be made high-speed by Irish Rail

Plans to link Shannon Airport with Limerick rail services

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

Night train could connect Luxembourg to Barcelona

🇲🇪 Montenegro

Montenegro to invest 19.4 mln euro in railway overhaul, maintenance in 2022

International rail links in Montenegro‘s national infrastructure plan

🇳🇴 Norway

Norway and Sweden are now one step closer to a high-speed train connection between Oslo and Stockholm

Norwegian trains will run on clean energy in 2022

🇷🇴 Romania

‘In Romania and Bulgaria, there is this mentality that trains are to be avoided’

🇷🇸 Serbia

Serbia to launch Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway on Mar 15

🇸🇰 Slovakia

A turning point in the refurbishment of the dilapidated main station in Bratislava

🇸🇮 Slovenia

Discovering Kočevsko is now easier with Ljubljana - Kočevje train!

🇪🇸 Spain

Homage to Spain’s railways: take the slow train for the best scenic routes

Spain's new low-cost train will connect Madrid with popular beach cities in 2022

🇸🇪 Sweden

This new sleeper train will take you all the way from Stockholm to Hamburg

🇨🇭 Switzerland

New group plans to bring high-speed rail to Switzerland