Hopes for an Irish rail revival begin at Armagh
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…
Intelligent Rail Summit ‘24: Estonia to play ‘pivotal role’ in future of rail tech
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…
Italy in France? Trenitalia to launch Paris-Marseille route
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 exits Stirling to London project
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…
HS “New” to replace HS2
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…
New Nightjet sleeper train links Vienna and Munich to Rome
ÖBB’s next-generation Nightjet has hit the tracks in style: its premier trip was the Austrian company’s first-ever night train from Vienna to Rome. Launching the route this week,…
Poland unveils €1.4 billion in new rail tenders
Poland’s rail manager PKP PLK has announced three tenders for high-speed upgrades and a massive construction project valued in total at 1.4 billion euros. That means faster trains…
Details of Bucharest-Budapest HSR line revealed – including huge price tag
This summer, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu finally agreed to creating a high-speed railway line from Bucharest to Budapest. Travel times between…
Baltic Express: new Prague-Poland line to cut travel by 3hrs
Czech Railways (ČD) has announced major changes to its 2025 timetable, the most significant being the introduction of the so-called ‘Baltic Express’ trains. Travelling all the way from…
Sydney Metro City line finally opens
After weeks of delays, the new City section of Sydney Metro opened to much fanfare on Monday morning, marking the first time a new underground train line has…
Can Portugal’s PPP model save Rail Baltica?
Rail Baltica, the rail infrastructure mega-project linking the Baltic states to the European rail network, is hoping to offset some of its financial difficulties by adopting Portugal’s approach…
Goodnight, night train! ÖBB halts Nightjet routes
Austrian railway company ÖBB is halting several of its night train services—launched only eight months ago—due to “extensive” infrastructure work. Passengers hoping to travel from Berlin and Vienna…
A united Irish rail: Dublin, Belfast lay out €35bn three-decade strategy
Ireland and Northern Ireland’s transport ministries have set out a new strategic vision for developing the rail system across the entire island in the coming decades. The All-Island…
Poland opens bid for nation’s largest high-speed rail tunnel
Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), the company overseeing the construction of Poland’s megaproject to build a new Warsaw airport and a nationwide high-speed rail network, has announced a tender…
Was it liberalisation? Spain’s high-speed rail use jumped 37% in 2023
Spain’s high-speed rail use increased by 37 per cent in 2023, according to the latest Annual Railway Sector Report. Several of the key lines broke passenger records, the…