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

Mar 23, 2023

Europe Rail News

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

“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

juan @juanbuis

absolutely losing it over this american journalist discovering... a train you're telling me you just walk on and sit down???

“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