Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, has asked selected engineering partnerships to tender for a system-wide train dispatch contract. HS2 Limited, the company formed to build the high-speed railway…
A new Manchester city and airport service to London has been proposed. The franchised operator London Northwestern Railway has set out plans to extend its existing services between…
Russia has approved plans to build a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The 679-kilometre railway should make it possible to travel between the country’s two…
Last Sunday, the long-awaited ‘Three Country Train’ was incorporated into an international timetable. Travellers can now travel between Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany) and almost…
Italy’s national carrier, Trenitalia, has expanded its timetable for an expected summer of content among domestic passengers. The state-owned operator, the backbone of the government’s Passenger Business Unit…
The much-anticipated launch of Arriva’s Three-Country Train, scheduled for 9 June, has been delayed. This news, already anticipated due to storm damage requiring track repairs between Maastricht and…
You wait forever for an open access operator on the West Coast Main Line, then two come along at once. Hot on the tail lights of FirstGroup’s Lumo,…
There is a big blue success story coming to Manchester. It’s not another Premiership title for City. The open access passenger train operator Lumo has revealed plans to…
SpoorPro wrote about it already in November last year. The founder of the glossy business magazine Quote, Maarten van den Biggelaar, aims to start a high-speed connection between…
GoVolta, the self-proclaimed ‘easyJet of the rails,’ is set to start daily passenger train service to Berlin as early as next May. On November 20, 2023, the company…
The Cadore Express, a train service operating between Rome and Cortina d’Ampezzo under FS Treni Turistici Italiani, concluded its final winter journey with success. Treni Turistici Italiani CEO…
European Sleeper plans to operate night trains between Amsterdam and Barcelona starting in 2025 but faces opposition from the French rail infrastructure manager. Co-founder Elmer van Buuren revealed…
After four years of construction, the tramway T3b extension to Porte Dauphine has begun operations, inaugurated by Île-de-France Mobilités today. It is now possible to ride around 75…
Russia has almost finished its new railroad in occupied Ukraine, warns Kilrilo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Service (DIU). The railway is meant to serve as…
Boarding a high-speed train in Amsterdam and disembarking in Basel will no longer be possible starting from July 16. The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) confirmed that the direct…