Many of the problems facing Europe’s cross-border railways can be put right with simple, relatively cheap solutions, says campaigner Jon Worth. ‘We know how to do this...
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A high-speed rail link across the continent could drive the shift of freight traffic from road to rail and provide major CO2 savings. In a now widely-cited study, in...
A Polish deep-tech firm wants to make high-speed trains accessible to railway operators across the world by deploying maglev technology on conventional track. Some...
In some parts of emerging Europe, rail travel is becoming increasingly popular due to the continuous improvement in the quality of services on offer. While this might...
Whisper it, but in parts of Central and Eastern Europe train services are improving, according to self-confessed train-geek Andy Brabin, currently travelling every...
Uzbekistan’s impressive high-speed rail lines have proven to be a major boon for the country’s economy and an example of well-planned public infrastructure. While much...
This year has been declared the Year of Rail by the European Commission in order to highlight train travel as one of the most “sustainable, smart and safe means of...
Rail Baltica promised a high-speed-rail connection linking Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland by 2026. With several sections now under construction, the ambitious...
The South Caucasus region has the opportunity to become one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors. The current world situation has been dramatically...
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is preparing to radically reconstruct its railway station, and this week called on architects from around the world to submit...
A major new report from Swedbank, a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, claims that the construction of a high speed rail link between the Estonian...
The notoriously slow railways of the Baltic states received a boost this week when the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a 25-year loan agreement worth 95 million...
