Europe Rail News: 27 January 2022
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.
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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
🇧🇦 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
🇮🇪 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)
🇷🇸 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.”