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'Success': 52 million tickets sold for cheap German train travel

German short distance rail passengers made roughly a billion journeys per month between June and August, a surge the German rail association have attributed to cheap tickets.

Travel News

Amsterdam to Austria: Overnight train will take skiiers to the slopes

The new ski train will open up parts of the slopes - but can only be booked as part of a package holiday offered by TUI.

United Kingdom

Workers across the UK go on strike as cost of living keeps rising

Workers at the UK’s largest container port are set to walk out, joining thousands of other across the country striking for better pay.

Spain

Spanish bullet train service halted after fibre optic cable stolen

A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of metres of the cable.

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Experiences

Sleep, eat and train your way to Italy and Spain on these new trips

Flight-free travel in Europe just got easier with a first of its kind train and tour package from Byways and Intrepid Travel.

Travel News

New sleeper train links London to Stockholm in just one day

Skip the airport delays and take a scenic train journey instead. This epic new rail journey will take you from London to Stockholm in just 24 hours.

Mobility

Paris to Berlin in an hour: Is this the future of rail travel?

Europe is betting on revamped train services to shift away from air travel and reduce carbon emissions from the transport sector.

Travel News

St Pancras’ space problem: What’s going wrong with the Eurostar?

The high-speed train is the most sustainable way of getting between the UK and European mainland, but has been beset by queues and delays in recent weeks.

United Kingdom

New train strike in the UK over cost of living crisis

Only about one in five trains will run on Wednesday, across about half of the network, with some areas seeing no trains at all throughout the day.

Travel News

TUI issues urgent warning for passengers travelling this week

Walkouts are expected to impact train travel on two days this week including services to airports.

People

‘The EU has to be more radical’: How can we fix cross-border rail?

Self-confessed EU nerd Jon Worth is taking 150 trains across 28 European countries to highlight the problems with cross-border rail travel in the EU.

Travel News

Italy unveils new high-speed trains from Rome Fiumicino airport

These are all the high-speed railways you need to know about in Europe, including new lines from Rome to Florence and Milan.

Travel News

Could Germany launch €1 a day train tickets to ease cost of living?

Around 31 million of Germany’s special €9 tickets were sold last month, signalling a strong interest in cheap train travel.

Destinations

I explored Sicily in Italy solo by train: Where to stay and what to do

Flight-free travel to Sicily is easy by ferry and the island is full of slow and mindful train routes.

Experiences

Airbnb is offering 6 travellers the ultimate European train adventure

Airbnb has partnered with Interrail to offer competition winners an epic rail adventure across Europe.

Experiences

Take a look inside a sleeper train made from refurbished old carriages

With train travel rising in popularity due to climate concerns, SNCF has taken things one step further by transforming their old carriages destined for the junkyard into new sleeper trains.

Green News

Train in the US derails as a result of 60 C degree heat

Train crashes may become more and more common as climate change heats up the planet.

Czech Republic

One dead and five injured after high-speed train hits locomotive

The accident took place early on Monday in Bohumin near the border with Poland.

Travel News

Thousands of trains cancelled as UK's biggest strike in decades begins

People are being urged not to travel as more than 200,000 people prepare to head to Glastonbury Festival in Somerset this weekend.

Spain

Several injured after engine collides with passenger train in Spain

The incident comes just one month after another train collision in the same region of Catalonia.