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What happened on Friday 6 May 1994? Cult dance track “The Real Thing” by Tony di Bart topped the UK charts. In France, the charts were also topped…
What happened on Friday 6 May 1994? Cult dance track “The Real Thing” by Tony di Bart topped the UK charts. In France, the charts were also topped…
Eurostar, the high-speed train connecting France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom, aims to enable 30 million passengers to travel sustainably and reduce their CO2 emissions…
Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel is building the Avernas photovoltaic park adjacent to the “Leuven-Liège” high-speed rail line. Expected to be operational within a year, the park will…
While Eurostar transported 19 million passengers in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic led to a significant decrease in travel across the globe. On Wednesday, the company announced having transported…
The idea of an express train between London and Germany, via Brussels, is not new. But what is new is that Eurotunnel owner Getlink is taking the initiative.
On the coldest day of the year, so far, you would not want to be stuck without power, in the countryside on a broken-down train. That happened on…
Between June 2024 and January 2025, no Eurostar trains to London can depart from the Netherlands, NS International announced. This 6-month interruption of direct travel is shorter than the…
Only 255 days left till the Olympic Games! Travellers and teams heading to the Olympic Games between July 26 and August 11 2024, as well as the Paralympic…
The brand-newly established railway company Heuro aims to be the alternative to Eurostar between Amsterdam, Paris and London from 2028. RailTech spoke to Dutch founder Roemer van den…
Sir Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group, is reportedly gearing up for a bid to break Eurostar’s long-held monopoly on Channel Tunnel rail…
Eurostar may have amalgamated with Thalys earlier this year, but there’s no early anticipation of restoring stops at Ashford and Ebbsfleet, the stations largely built to connect Kent…
Six new railway undertakings, including Eurostar, have or will soon join the Agreement on Journey Continuation (AJC). This multilateral agreement between European operators supports international rail passengers in…
Two weeks ago, the last red train adorned with the Thalys name left Paris for Brussels. Henceforth, high-speed rail connections between London and Paris, but also Belgium and…
The Channel Tunnel could, finally, be on the cusp of an open-access market challenge. There have been false dawns and false starts, but thirty years after its opening,…
SNCB and SNCF Voyageurs are studying the possibility of jointly setting up a new regular passenger service using conventional trains between Brussels and Paris by the end of…