Spanish train manufacturer Talgo is leading a €105 million project to develop a new generation of high-speed trains designed to operate across Europe. The three-year BasqTrain 35 programme aims to overcome technical differences between national railway networks, which complicate cross-border services and increase train development costs.
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Brussels Airlines launches new amenity kits from Diane von Furstenberg
Brussels Airlines introduces new amenity kits on long-haul flights. As of mid-November, Business Class passengers will receive a luxurious pouch by world-renowned designer Diane von Furstenberg. With this partnership, Brussels Airlines elevates its premium offering even further, offering passengers unique collectors’ items.
Deutsche Bahn’s alternatives are a strength – but passengers don’t want to manage them
Independent railway commentator and cross-border rail expert Jon Worth has had enough of the tropes and jokes about Deutsche Bahn. And after completing his record-breaking journey from Kemijärvi in Finland to Lagos in Portugal, he has a point.
Two-thirds of Europeans travelled in 2024, but millions still could not afford a holiday
Almost two-thirds of European Union residents aged 15 and over took at least one tourism trip for personal purposes in 2024, according to Eurostat. But behind the recovery in European travel, a substantial divide remains: nearly three in ten Europeans could not afford to pay for a one-week annual holiday away from home.
KYOTO | The Eizan Electric Railway or Eiden Line, at the foot of Mount Hiei
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
Brussels Airlines expands its network in summer 2027 with new destination Cairo
Brussels Airlines is preparing for summer 2027 by adding Cairo in Egypt as a new destination and increasing frequencies to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. On its European network, the airline will add capacity to several popular holiday destinations, including Funchal, Málaga, and Nice, while continuing its service to Evenes in Northern Norway.
Dutch heritage railway operator Het Stoomgenootschap to run first trip in Belgium
Dutch heritage railway operator Het Stoomgenootschap will organise its first train journey in Belgium in March 2027, using a historic Belgian diesel locomotive that recently returned to service. The trip will be hauled by locomotive 5519, the only preserved Belgian museum locomotive authorised to operate independently on the country’s regular Infrabel railway network.
Frecciarossa to link Munich with Milan and Rome from summer 2027
High-speed Frecciarossa trains will link Munich in Bavaria directly with Milan in Lombardy and Rome in Latium (Lazio) from summer 2027, under a new cooperation between Deutsche Bahn (DB), Trenitalia and the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).
ÖBB adds international train connections to Germany, Italy, Serbia and Slovakia in 2027 timetable
Austria’s Österreichische Bundesbahnen or ÖBB will expand international rail services in its 2027 timetable, introducing a Vienna to Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg overnight train, Frecciarossa high-speed services from Munich in Bavaria to Milan in Lombardy, and Rome in Latium, and planned direct trains to Belgrade in Serbia for the first time since 2019. The timetable takes…
BALTIC STATES | Rail Baltica train tender fails to attract compliant rolling stock bids
A joint tender for Rail Baltica regional trains has failed after none of the bids submitted by train manufacturers met the requirements set by the Baltic passenger rail operators.