I took my kids on a ten-day screen-free interrailing holiday and it was the best trip we ever did. www.cntraveller.com/article/how-...

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway buys village pub. A pub which closed suddenly two years ago has reopened after a nearby heritage railway bought it. The Royal Oak in Haworth has long been popular with visitors to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚉 “People can see it – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed 30 mile East-West Railway line that has no passenger trains. The £1Bn East West Railway linking Oxford to Milton Keynes was finished in 2024. There’s just one hitch: no trains.” 🆓⬇️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🇻🇦🚉 🇮🇹 Joining rail expert JonWorth.eu today on his trip Albania to home in France. Today’s cross border line, Vatican-Italy! It’s intact, but not seen a train for a while. In the meantime we’ve sorted out Europe’s railways over coffee & Peroni.

NEW VIDEO! Inside Switzerland’s AMAZING new double decker train from Basel to Zürich! Link: youtube.com/watch?v=6NlM...

🚉 Interrail: “Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online. Eurail, which sells passes, says data being ‘offered for sale on dark web’ after December breach affecting 300,000 people.” ⬇️🆓 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🚂🚞🚞🚞🚞 Daily Telegraph: 3 years after West Coast told to fit door locks, West Coast Rly still looking for exemption for MkI trains… but not quite the story in DT. “Hogwarts Express train risks being derailed by health and safety.” ⬇️🆓 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/899492e...

🇮🇪 “Transdev to accept loss of Dublin’s €1.3bn Luas tram contract after taking legal advice. French-British joint venture KeolisAmey will run Dublin’s tram service from September.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

♻️🚉 Sunday Times: “New recycling rules mean some rail stations get 28 bins, some get zero. Since March 31, the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has required businesses to start separating waste at the point of disposal.” 🆓➡️ www.thetimes.com/article/434f...

Bridge bash costs & disruption reach the Daily Telegraph… “I visited Britain’s most battered rail bridge. No wonder railways are in chaos. A different rail strike brings delays for train travellers & a £23m bill for taxpayers.” ⁦‪⁦‪⁦ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/34c5b72...

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🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu

My train was hauled by another PKP Intercity retro locomotive, this time the 42 year old EP07-339, it looks so amazing in the morning light... 🥰

🇮🇹 🛫 Milan Malpensa Silvio Berlusconi airport. “The long-running legal battle over whether Milan's main international airport should carry the name of Silvio Berlusconi has ended in defeat for the municipalities that opposed it.” www.wantedinmilan.com/news/milan-l...

1/ A derailment in Russia that injured over 80 people was reportedly caused by a broken 40-year-old rail that should have been replaced 15 years ago. Defects were ignored despite repeated reports. It's the latest scandal for the crisis-hit Russian Railways. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/unit...

The Times, "Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department" "None of Leave's 'heady promises' had materialised"

NEW VIDEO! A train that tries to go as slow as possible, with the oldest carriages. I'm taking the Intercity Nieśpieszny in Poland, from Warsaw to Zakopane, seeing what train travel used to be like... 😁 WATCH: youtu.be/j2aa8vYkibE

Let’s put it this way: based on what I’ve heard on the grapevine, this Stuttgarter Zeitung article about Italo entering the German rail market is plausible www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.oeffe...

🇩🇰 Two trains collided head-on on Thursday morning in Denmark, on single track between #Hillerød and Kagerup about forty kilometers north of Copenhagen, injuring several people.

🇨🇭 Swiss Railways launch programme of historic rail tours this year. From the famous 'crocodile' electric to steam trains. ℹ️: ffshistoric.ch Italy & Poland also have heritage mainline trains, at more affordable fares! 🇮🇹: www.fondazionefs.it/it/treni-sto... 🇵🇱: www.intercity.pl/pl/site/o-na...

🇫🇮 Finland's has just opened one of the world's longest pedestrian bridges. It is called #Kruunuvuorensilta and spans 1,191 metres, exclusively for pedestrians, public transport and bikes. www.euronews.com/travel/2026/...

GB ahead on this one: "Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🛗 Floor 40. First time at one of the many rooftop restaurants in the City of London. 110 Bishopsgate. 📍Duck & Waffle. maps.app.goo.gl/PjNzGYuppbd7...

🛌🌛Night Riviera - I'm on GWR's 21:15 Penzance-London Paddington. It's got the oldest carriages in UK, but one of the best interiors! Smart refurbished sleeper car, and a plush bar/lounge with sofas & armchairs. Even the cheap seats look good...🧵⬇️

My 4 day Interail pass, got me from Rome to Wakefield in 3 days. Seems a waste to travel back to London in 2hrs. So I’m heading Wakefield to London - via Penzance! On the 10:14 1V52 to Plymouth, then GWR to PNZ & 21:15 sleeper tonight.... 📍Follow live route: www.polarsteps.com/ChristopherO...

Time for a visit to the WARS @DiningCar.at, for a decent breakfast spread, ahead of our slightly delayed arrival into Warszawa Centralna due to overtaking and being overtaken by the same train. 😋

Anyone want to set a new record? When Tornio 🇫🇮 - Haparanda 🇸🇪 passenger services start this summer, a new longest train journey in the EU is possible, using multiple trains. Geodesic 3933.23km Kolari 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹, surpassing previous best 3855.54km Riksgränsen 🇸🇪 - Lagos 🇵🇹 yle.fi/a/74-20220038

Leeds - my home & railway career for 25 years in a city that always seemed to fall at the final hurdle. Great to see today it's a vibrant modern city. Finally the old abandoned Great Northern viaduct into Central station is now an urban park & walkway. And Great Northern wagon drop restored.

📱 Another 'Brexit dividend' - cost of data for EU residents visiting UK. UK is now 'rest of world' like Oz or Brazil. My 5Gb for €4 now depleted I'm on to 6p a Mb. But x 1024 = €61 a Gb 😳😳 (Activates eSim).

🍻 Great to be back in West Yorkshire. A day at a nice country pub with warm beer & old friends. Not sure what to make of the van parked outside the pub?! Are they expecting me? Is it not the quiet pub I thought?

Good morning King’s Cross / St Pancras! 🍳☕️ Quality breakfast in Betjamin Arms, St Pancras. 🚅 Quality traction at King's Cross! My chariot to West Yorkshire.

🛂 Lille Europe Eurostar. Arrived 1435 for 1635 train expecting queues. I was right. At head of Q told I can’t board before 1535 has left. Back to the back of the Q!

🇫🇷 Lille, twin city of my UK home Leeds. But 2 underground & 2 tram lines, 100+ stops. Surprisingly; - the driverless underground trains are a rubber tyred 'bus'. - the tram is a train, more of an EMU through streets, with open level crossings. But all better than Leeds' diesel buses.

🇧🇪 At SNCB’s Mons station. Did ‘The Architecture The Railways Built’ get another series @mrtimdunn.bsky.social ?! This beautiful bus/rail interchange at Mons worth a visit. A great example of modern architecture adding to the railway - and the wider city.

🇳🇱 Den Haag / The Hague. Visiting the beautiful city I've only passed by on the train. Worth getting off - there's a huge tramway, with an American PCC heritage tram. €18 for a day ticket on a 1hr circuit from station to seaside. ℹ️: denhaag.com/en/tourist-t...

🛌 Nightjet 420 sleeper Innsbruck-Amsterdam. I've just started this 1,000km trip in plush new carriages of Austria's OBB. I'm on a 1st class interrail, this is a €120 supplement. My compartment has toilet & shower. Hoping for single occupancy... 🗺️ Follow route: www.polarsteps.com/ChristopherO...

🇮🇹🚅🇬🇧 My first Interrail! Rome-Bogna-Innsbruck-Amsterdam-Lille-London-Wakefield. A day 'Direttissima' closed for ERTMS install glad I set off 90 mins early, booked Bologna connection 60 late. Bologna: on Austrian OBB train to Munich - with restaurant car. 🗺️ Follow: www.polarsteps.com/ChristopherO...

🇳🇴 Bergensbanen. Fire on Bergen-Oslo train on Tuesday in remote area south of Nesbyen. “Fire-fighters praised the train crew who moved the train to an accessible area, evacuated the carriages and extinguish those on fire. “In our view that was fabulous,” ℹ️: www.newsinenglish.no/2026/04/08/t...

🇮🇹Trenord has a new programme of day trips on historic trains - 1920s carriages & locos or DMU for €20. - Milan Cadorna - Lake Como/Maggiore/Novara Nord/Asso mountains - 12, 19, 26 April, 10, 24 May, 7 June ℹ️: giteintreno.trenord.it/en/trains?ca...

🇪🇸 The Gran Canaria train project receives its Environmental Impact Statement and moves towards implementation. The 60km line, 30km tunnel, will link 11 stations every 15 mins at upto 160kmh. Wind farm to power trains. Construction 7 years. maspalomas24h.uk/art/10341/el...

🚢 “Rong Hua Wan” - the last ship with aviation fuel to leave Hormuz. It’s now approaching English Channel with final delivery of jet fuel for Europe. Due Rotterdam 9 April. From May, the availability of aviation fuel in Europe will be reduced by 50%…

Daily Telegraph: 🇪🇸 “The 10 most scenic rail journeys in Spain. Rolling through olive groves, past vivid blue lakes and across mountain viaducts, trains may be the best places to admire Spain’s landscapes” 🆓 ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e5f4874...

The collision between a TGV and a heavy truck in Pas-de-Calais claimed one life—the train driver—two people critically injured and eleven with minor injuries, on Tuesday, April 7. The accident occurred around 7 a.m. at a level crossing near Mazingarbe, close to Lens, in Pas-de-Calais.

Sad news. TGV driver killed when colliding with an HGV on the classic line Béthune - Lens.

🇺🇸 ‘CoCo’ chosen as name for proposed Colorado Front Range rail service. “Colorado Connector describes very well what the service does” sentinelcolorado.com/metro/coco-c... via @sentinelcolorado.com

🇨🇦 VIA Rail Canada to invest Ca$150 million modernsing its entire fleet of 56 Chateau and Manor series sleeping cars. The five-year program will extend the life of the stainless steel cars built by the Budd Co. in 1954-55. www.trains.com/pro/mechanic...

🇬🇧🇮🇹 Another own goal from the UK… “After 80 years of honorable service, since its arrival in the Bel Paese in 1945, the British Council is preparing to cancel English courses in Italy. Extremely heavy cuts that one of the tottering giants of UK “soft power” will have to make.”

🇫🇷 "Changing the rules of the game midway through to kill the competition & preserve its monopoly SNCF Voyageurs persists in its lobbying for its scorched-earth strategy." www.bfmtv.com/economie/ent...

🇪🇺🛂 10 April, Schengen biometric scans begin when entering EU.... ... but stalled again for cross-Channel travellers. No facial IDs for Eurotunnel and Eurostar passengers as tech not yet ready. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

🤩 A ‘recreation’ of the RMS Titanic, staged in Belfast harbour through the use a ‘flotilla’ of 950 drones