Europe: ÖBB, DB, SBB, and SNCF announce Nightjet collaboration

By David Burroughs, International Railway Journal; December 8, 2020 AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB), German Rail (DB), Swiss Federal Railways (SBB),…

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Canada: If Madrid and Barcelona can build a high-speed rail connection, why can’t Toronto and Montreal?

By Amir Barnea, Contributor, The Toronto Star; January 20, 2020 As a pair, Toronto and Montreal, Canada’s two largest cities,…

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Ryanair on rails? Spain’s high-speed AVE train tries a low-cost formula

By Ramón Muñoz, El Pais; February 9  2018 Spain’s state railway company, Renfe, is experimenting with low-cost formulas that mirror…

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Next Stop: Your Room, at the World’s Best Railway Hotels

By Michael Kaminer, The Points Guy; January 27, 2018 Railway hotels conjure a sepia-toned, steam-shrouded era of travel, when rival…

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Spanish airline to enter high-speed rail market

Editor’s Note: In the United States and Canada, in the early days of airline travel, many of the railroads which…

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