Sunweb and European Sleeper are creating a more sustainable travel offer together
New Belgian-Dutch railway company European Sleeper and travel group Sunweb are creating a more sustainable travel offer together by introducing direct night trains to popular...
Thalys to stop Paris-Brussels line by its low cost unit Izy
The days when it is possible to go from Paris to Brussels thanks to Izy, the slower low-cost train of the Thalys company, are...
Munich-Zurich Airport to be the first international ‘SWISS Air Rail’ route
The ‘Airtrain’ is going international: SWISS is expanding its collaboration with SBB CFF Swiss Federal Railways on its intermodal transport service, which will in...
Premiere for SJ night train Stockholm-Hamburg on 1 September
September 1 is the premiere of SJ (Swedish Railways) new night train Stockholm-Hamburg. It is the start of a daily, year-round train service between...
Alstom to deliver 25 high-speed trains to Sweden
The new trains will effectively be Sweden’s fastest ever, capable of operating at maximum speeds of 250km/h.
First firm order of 25 state-of-the-art Zefiro...
Major technical problem at Dutch Railways (NS): no trains for hours
Due to a technical failure, the Dutch Railways company NS is currently experiencing major problems and NS trains will not run at least until...
KLM and Thalys make train travel to/from Brussels more appealing to transfer passengers
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Thalys have closed an agreement to continue developing their joint AirRail product with a view to making it more...
Thalys and Eurostar merger process may continue after Brussels judgment
The European Commission has approved the takeover of Thalys, known for the high-speed train between Amsterdam/Dusseldorf and Paris, by the French railway company SNCF....
Finnish railways VR suspend train service between Helsinki and St. Petersburg
ALLEGRO trains will stop operating a connection between Helsinki and St. Petersburg on Saturday, reports the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.The Finnish Minister for European Affairs...
Finnish railways deploy extra trains for Russians who want to flee their own country
The Finnish railways will extend the timetable between the Russian city of St. Petersburg and the Finnish capital Helsinki, as more and more Russians...
Deutsche Bahn orders 43 new ICE 3neo high-speed trains from Siemens Mobility
The new ICE: The ICE 3neo train presented in Berlin for the first time
Enhanced comfort for passengers
New trains enter...
Train ticket to Amsterdam bookable in combination with KLM air ticket
As of this week, KLM passengers booking air tickets will simultaneously be able to book a train ticket from Schiphol to Amsterdam Central Station...
Launch of European Sleeper night train from Brussels and Amsterdam to Berlin and Prague postponed to summer
Previously announced for spring, the night train operated by Belgian-Dutch start-up European Sleeper and Czech railway company RegioJet, connecting Brussels and Amsterdam to Berlin...
Ath, 55 years ago: the very last train towed by a steam locomotive made its last official journey in Belgium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OYSNRt2RU&t=5sTuesday, 20 December 1966 is particularly marked in Belgian railway history. Indeed, the local train 8155 is the last passenger train in commercial service...
Trenitalia, first competitor of the French TGV on Paris-Lyon launches in December
The Italian company will try to stand out with two top-of-the-range classes aboard its Frecciarossa.
The first high-speed train competing with SNCF is approaching. Trenitalia...
Thalys to resume HST service from Antwerp and Brussels to Disneyland Paris and Paris CDG Airport
Thalys announced on Wednesday that it would resume high-speed train (HST) service from Antwerp Central Station and Brussels Midi station to Disneyland Paris in...
Thalys presented its new trainset on Tuesday at Brussels Midi
The Thalys railway company, which operates high-speed trains between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Düsseldorf, officially inaugurated on Tuesday, 26 October, at the Midi station...
The Connecting Europe Express train reaches final destination after 20,000 km journey
Today, the Connecting Europe Express reached its final destination of Paris after 36 days travelling across Europe - West to East, North to South,...
Thalys brand to disappear in merger with Eurostar
The high-speed train companies Eurostar and Thalys are resuming their merger project, delayed by the coronavirus crisis. The headquarters of the future entity will...
Amtrak’s Empire Builder train derails in Montana, at least three dead
At least three people were killed and some 50 persons were injured in a train derailment in the US state of Montana on Saturday,...