Europe Rail News: 27 January 2022

Kosovo-Albania Railway starts works in 2024, Greece’s amazing cog railway of the Peloponnese, the Bernina Express, and more rail news from around Europe.

Europe Rail News

Europe’s most exciting new rail journeys for 2022 – from Austria’s Nightjet sleeper trains to Italy’s ‘Red Arrow’

How Trans Europe Express trains could be making a comeback

🇦🇱 Albania

Kosovo-Albania Railway starts works in 2024

🇦🇹 Austria

Night train between Vienna and Brussels: prices start at €29.90

🇧🇪 Belgium

This new overnight train with lie-flat beds will Run between Brussels and Prague starting this summer

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

The National Monument: Bistrik Railway Station in Sarajevo

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Bulgaria and North Macedonia sign memoranda of cooperation in agriculture, transport and SMEs

“Three memoranda of cooperation were signed after the joint meeting in Sofia of the governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia. The memoranda cover cooperation in agriculture, on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and on the construction of a railway line between Skopje and Sofia.”

🇨🇿 Czechia

Review: Leo Express Train Prague to Olomouc

🇫🇷 France

OPINION: France’s ‘slow train’ revolution may just be the future for travel

🇬🇧 Great Britain

UK railways are heading into a perfect storm. Now is the time to nationalise them

U.K. transport secretary pledges to silence ‘endless torrent’ of train announcements

The rise and fall of Crewe as the world's greatest railway workshop

🇬🇷 Greece

Greece’s high-speed trains from Italy stuck in bureaucratic slow lane

Odontotos: Greece’s amazing cog railway of the Peloponnese

🇭🇺 Hungary

Twelve architecture firms shortlisted to redesign Budapest's Nyugati Railway Station

Russia prepared to contribute to construction of rail line bypassing Budapest
Source: dailynewshungary.com

🇮🇪 Ireland

Restoration of West Cork railway would undo one of Ireland’s 'biggest transport mistakes'

Call for faster trains on the Dublin line and the re-opening of the Western rail corridor

🇮🇹 Italy

A new version of the Orient Express train is coming to Italy in 2023

🇱🇹 Lithuania

Lithuania selects northern route for Rail Baltica section to capital

🇷🇴 Romania

Most scenic train ride in Romania (Mocanita in snow)

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A look around the Deluxe Sleeper on Astra Trans my home for the night between Arad and Bucharest!

🇷🇸 Serbia

Belgrade-Novi Sad railway to be ready for commercial traffic in March

🇸🇮 Slovenia

Slovenian railways to launch 52 new Stadler trains in 2022

🇪🇸 Spain

Spain’s Avlo to launch new low-cost train between Madrid and Valencia 

Spain’s high-speed network reaches Galicia

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Europe’s most scenic train ride takes you places you didn’t think a train could go

“The continent’s thrilling Bernina Express isn’t just a throwback to a different era of travel, it’s a throwback to when travel was meant to wow us.”

🇹🇷 Turkey

Bottles clinking, Turkish party train blazes through night