Eurostar has announced it will be running regular services again between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and London from February 2025. The route has been closed since June 15 due to…
There’s a new UK Budget and there’s some big news for British rail. Finance minister Rachel Reeves has said the southern leg of the HS2 railway line should…
Switzerland is going to pay more than fifty million euros to electrify a rail network… in Germany. The Swiss government has decided to contribute tens of millions to…
From December, the state-backed Swedish Railways (SJ) will no longer be handing over its night train operations in Denmark to a private company. Instead, SJ’s own drivers will…
France operating in Spain; Spain operating in France. The EU’s push towards liberalising Europe’s rail is in full swing, and Renfe is taking advantage: it will relaunch an…
The new metro extension in Milan has gotten off to an inauspicious start, after the line had a serious malfunction—apparently due to its Hitachi-run software—less than 24 hours…
European Sleeper, the Lowlands’ private night train operator, had planned to launch a new service between Amsterdam and Barcelona in 2025. But due to “significant challenges”, the company…
The European Commission has given Poland’s CPK infrastructure megaproject around 38 million euros to draw up the designs for a key part of its future “Y” route, set…
Norway’s government has proposed to set aside 470 million euros for 2025 to upgrade its railway network, nearly 250 million euros more than last year. The budget still…
SNCB has resubmitted a watered-down version of its train offer for 2025 despite Belgium’s outgoing Mobility Minister rejecting a similar plan last month. Georges Gilkinet responded by saying…
The first of October, 2024. Sixty-seven years to the day since closure. It’s taken a while, but the campaign group seeking to reestablish a railhead in Armagh held…
It’s almost here! RailTech’s Intelligent Rail Summit ’24 is coming to Estonia in six weeks. As the biggest names in the industry prepare to gather in Tallinn, some…
France’s railways are opening up to even more competition next year, as Italy’s state-run rail company Trenitalia confirms to RailTech that it’s preparing a new service between Paris…
Grand Union Trains, the would-be open access operator, with plans for direct services between Stirling, Lanarkshire and London, has hit the buffers, without ever running a train. The…
HS2 Birmingham to Manchester is dead. Long live HS New Birmingham to Manchester. Civic leaders in the Midlands and North West of England are getting behind a study…