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Malaysia Airlines is strengthening its intermodal transport offering through a new codeshare partnership with SNCF Voyageurs. The agreement will facilitate connections between the carrier's daily Paris-Kuala Lumpur flight and SNCF's 28 rail destinations to and from Paris-CDG airport. The product forms part of...

There are no more places for sale for the next few days. The launch of the first railway line within the United Arab Emirates on June 30th has generated massive enthusiasm from the local population. It is true that the event is significant, as the train represents a major step forward in the...

The Football World Cup will have at least one advantage. It allows for some advances in North American mobility. And one of the most remarkable developments is the possibility for travellers on the Amtrak Cascades rail service to complete pre-clearance immigration and customs formalities at Vancouver station in…

2025 was a mixed bag for Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), a year that the company's CEO, Andreas Matthä, described as a "year of light and shadow". On the bright side, the opening of the massive Koralmbahn project in southern Austria, a new line with a tunnel, which will cut journey times between the cities…

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the commercial branch of Polish railways PKP Intercity is bringing Communist Poland back to life with train journeys as they were in the 1980s. It's an idea that could well appeal to incentive event organisers! Travellers who have experienced the People's Republic of Poland,...

A new chapter in rail transport opened in Austria on 14 December. This date marked the inauguration by Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB of the "Koralmbahn" line. This is the most important rail development in Austria for a century. This development will open up the south of Austria even further...

The timetable change on 14 December 2025 will bring the biggest expansion of services in north-west Switzerland for 20 years, with Basel continuing to strengthen its role as the country's rail gateway. From the main station, SBB will offer a quarter-hourly service between Basel and Liestal, and a quarter-hourly service between...

On 5 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled an ambitious plan to drastically reduce rail journey times between Europe's major cities by 2040. Such an ambition would make it possible to integrate existing high-speed rail networks and cover the many gaps in current coverage. Such an effort would...

Finnish railways VR are continuing to improve their network with the launch of a Pendolino Plus rail service between Helsinki and the city of Turku in the west of the country. Tickets are already on sale and available on the VR Matkalla application or at www.vr.fi. The Pendolino Plus VR train will start operating between Helsinki...

A new report by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) highlights the imbalances in European rail funding. Between 2021 and 2023, seven mega-projects took up 31 % of the European Interconnection Mechanism (EIM), the EU's main transport fund, or €6.6 billion. At the same time, 84 urgent improvement projects received only...

Passengers wishing to take trains to, from or within Luxembourg are in for a tough few weeks. In particular, the TGV between Paris and Luxembourg via Metz and Thionville will undergo adjustments. Passengers will benefit from "TGV" shuttle buses from Bettembourg to the Luxembourg capital and Thionville....

At the end of the year, China had a rail network of 162,000 kilometres, including 48,000 km dedicated to high-speed rail. This is a world record. The figures for passenger numbers are also impressive. China's railways carried 4.08 billion passengers last year. With daily peaks reaching 21.45 million...

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) have set Basel as their flagship city for 2026. The metropolis in north-western Switzerland will see the biggest expansion of its rail services for twenty years. This will also strengthen the role of Basel Central (Basel SBB-CFF) as a hub for rail traffic...

The giant power cut - the first of its kind in history - which affected the whole of the Iberian Peninsula and the French Basque Country for a brief period has finally been brought under control. On the morning of 29 April, the local media announced that 99% of the electricity network was once again operational. While continuing to try to...

"The figures are satisfactory in a context marked by an economic slowdown and, above all, record flooding at the end of last year in Austria". ÖBB CEO Andreas Matthä was generally satisfied when he announced the Austrian rail company's annual results. In fact, the number of passengers has risen by...

This will happen before the end of the year. The Belgian rail transport company SNCB is to reform its fare structure, replacing flat-rate fares with percentage reductions depending on the type of passenger or for those travelling with a discount card. According to an SNCB spokesman, trains will become less expensive overall...

VorZUG (pronounced phonetically "fortsoug") is a play on words for anyone wondering about such a name: it means both "to put the train ahead" and "to give preference". In any case, the new programme of the Austrian Federal Railways aims to promote rail travel. The...

The Abu Dhabi-Dubai high-speed train project should help to promote sustainable mobility in the Emirates and improve the living environment of its inhabitants. It should also help to achieve the objectives of the carbon neutrality strategy planned for 2050. The announcement was officially made at the...

84.3% of trains arriving on time. Deutsche Bahn can only dream of this figure: it was the figure 20 years ago, in 2004. Two decades later, the German rail company's record on train punctuality is appalling: 62.5% of ICE (high-speed) and IC trains arrived on time...

With the new timetable due to come into force on 15 December 2024, Swiss Federal Railways is continuing to adapt its rail services throughout the country on the main national and European lines, as well as on regional services. SBB has made a special effort to help the French-speaking part of the country. For several years now, the cantons have been...