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Europe Rail News: March 2023

The rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains, France plans €100 billion investment in rail travel by 2040, Derby confirmed as new HQ of Britain’s rail network

James Clark
Mar 23, 2023
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Europe is trying to ditch planes for trains. Here's how that's going

Want to travel around Europe with your friends? The EU is giving away 35,000 train passes

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“Dubbed DiscoverEU, the scheme is part of the Erasmus programme and aims to nurture cultural connections in the European Union. It will offer 18-year-olds the chance to explore Europe’s heritage and history while meeting people from across the continent.”

‘We snaked between mountains and the Mediterranean’: readers’ favourite European train journeys

Why sleeper trains are being revived across Europe

‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains

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🇦🇹 Austria

Rail route of the month: in the footsteps of railway pioneers through Austria

🇧🇪 Belgium

SNCB sells nearly 60 train stations in last ten years

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Since the war, not a single new section of the railway has been built

🇭🇷 Croatia

New diesel-electric train put into operation in Istria

🇫🇷 France

France plans €100 billion investment in rail travel by 2040

French rail link between Bordeaux and Lyon 'to return in 2024'

Orient excess: a night of gilded glamour aboard Belmond’s magnificent new train route

I paid £11 to travel 500km – but is the no-frills ‘Ryanair’ of the railways worth it?

Greener, faster, more accessible: A sneak peek inside France’s new generation of TGV trains

🇩🇪 Germany

Germany’s unlimited €49-a-month rail pass to launch on 1 May

🇬🇧 Great Britain

Derby confirmed as new HQ of Britain’s rail network

Luxury Scottish Highlands train unveils stunning new suites

Scottish government to take ownership of Caledonian sleeper services

🇬🇷 Greece

Trains in Greece gradually back on track after rail tragedy

🇮🇪 Ireland

Ireland approves DART+ South West rail project

🇮🇹 Italy

Italy: InvestEU - €3.4 billion to modernise the Palermo-Catania railway line

French trains land in Italy: in Rome, Milan, Naples and Venice with SNCF. Reply to Frecciarossa Milan-Paris

🇱🇻 Latvia

EUR 370 million to be invested in upgrade of Latvian railway infrastructure until 2029

Inscription in Russian dismantled from Riga Railway Station

“The inscription "Station" made in Russian was dismantled from the Riga Central Railway Station. In the future, there will be inscriptions on the station building only in Latvian and English.”

These creepy railroad safety films will make you never want to go near a train

“Commissioned by Latvian Railways, these stop-motion films try to teach kids the dangers of playing near train tracks — but even as an adult, they’re terrifying.”

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

I traveled around Luxembourg, the first country in the world to make public transport free, by train, tram, and bus. Here's what it was like.

🇲🇩 Moldova

Two railway segments in the Republic of Moldova will be restored with the support of the EBRD

🇳🇴 Norway

Future uncertain for popular ‘Flytoget,’ the Airport Express Train

The epic train ride from Oslo to Bergen

A US mom's experience traveling Norway on a kid-friendly train is going viral

🇵🇱 Poland

Poland may have Europe’s most modern high-speed rail network in 20 years, says EU official

🇵🇹 Portugal

New Algarve rail service unveiled

“The future light rail service between the Algarve cities of Olhão, Faro and Loulé will be 38km long and will benefit 185,000 people, around 40% of the population of the Algarve.”

Portuguese put “trains on the tracks” with more than 600 proposals

🇷🇸 Serbia

Works on Belgrade's new central railway station progress well - Vucic

Serbia secures grant for Belgrade-Niš rail project

🇸🇮 Slovenia

Slovenia's 2TDK to complete Divaca-Koper railway project ahead of schedule

🇪🇸 Spain

You can now get trains all over Spain for just €9

Abandoned train station transformed into spectacular hotel

Why are there so few trains between Spain and Portugal?

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Let the train take the strain on an epic skiing holiday in Switzerland

Switzerland names new high-tech train after Shania Twain

Possible launch of a direct train between Britain and Switzerland

🇺🇦 Ukraine

The extraordinary train lifeline behind Ukraine’s Rail Force One

Ukraine launches railway decolonisation programme

“Station names and Soviet artworks will be changed, and the Russian language will be replaced with English on the tickets.”

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