Europe Rail News: July 2023

The best new European train routes launching in 2023 & 2024, fixing European cross-border train travel, the gentle beauty of a ride from Hamburg into Denmark, a journey into the ‘green heart of Italy'

Europe Rail News

Where to go and how to plan a family rail adventure around Europe

Flight-free travel: The best new European train routes launching in 2023 and 2024

What’s a worthy alternative to the Trans-Siberian railway?

European cross-border train travel is still ‘quite complex’. This company is on a mission to fix it

EU transport chief signals support for train company competition against Eurostar

Deutsche Bahn’s Europabahn study

🇦🇹 Austria

Austria’s rail company ÖBB to invest in new double-decker trains

🇧🇪 Belgium

Plans for new rail link between Brussels and Paris

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Construction of missing Bosnian rail link to be studied

🇫🇷 France

A brand new night train between Paris and Berlin is launching soon

🇩🇪 Germany

Rail route of the month: the gentle beauty of a ride from Hamburg into Denmark

10 million people have bought the Deutschland ticket in a month

Bahn Board: Punctuality as in Japan unattainable

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Plans to close most UK railway ticket offices to kick off ‘in weeks’

Adieu Mickey Mouse: Eurostar’s shrinking ambitions seven years on from the Brexit vote

What’s it like aboard the sleeper train from London to Berlin?

The Flying Scotsman: World’s most famous steam train returns home after 100 years

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl takes train to Glastonbury Festival

From the archive: The glory years of BR steam

🇮🇪 Ireland

Atlantic ‘railway spine’ from Ballina to Rosslare and higher-speed intercity travel proposed in rail review

🇮🇹 Italy

Umbria by train: A journey into the ‘green heart of Italy’

Inside the factory making ‘tri-brid’ electric trains that could revolutionise transport in Europe

Italy's new direct Rome-Pompeii train to run every Sunday

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

Luxembourg's railway stations prepare for revamp

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Dutch train tickets are pricey compared with other EU countries

🇲🇰 North Macedonia

Brnabic: Serbia-North Macedonia fast railway link in near future

🇳🇴 Norway

“No” to rail operators and traffic jams: Norway’s serious problem of capacity

🇵🇹 Portugal

Concerns raised over high-speed rail project

🇷🇸 Serbia

To Belgrade on Tito's night train

Serbia to start overhaul of Nis-Dimitrovgrad railway in Aug

🇪🇸 Spain

New funding secured for research into Gibraltar Strait underwater rail tunnel

🇺🇦 Ukraine

RegioJet to launch two direct trains from Ukraine to Germany

Ukraine hints at postwar transfer of Japan bullet train tech