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Twenty months after first taking to the rails between Brussels and Berlin, European Sleeper have announced a new night train service to add to their portfolio from 2025. The new route — Brussels to Venice, via the Alps — will take passengers from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, stopping at a
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Train Sim World developer Dovetail Games yesterday announced the fifth instalment of their train simulation series, with routes, locomotives, and a new conductor mode, amongst other minor changes. The game is now available for pre-order, and will release on PC (Epic Games, Steam, Xbox App), PlayStation (PS4, PS5), and Xbox
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Island Line, which operates services between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin stations on the Isle of Wight, is set to undergo a series of closures for vital maintenance in the latter half of this year and into spring 2025. The work will take place in two stages. The whole line
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Yesterday (2 June 2024), new timetables were rolled out across the network by train operating companies. For Avanti West Coast, this also meant the introduction of their new class 805 'Evero' bi-mode multiple units (BMUs). These train sets will be replacing the ageing class 221 'Super Voyagers&
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In 2021, Avanti West Coast (the train operating company running intercity services along the West Coast Main Line) took a new approach to train tickets, introducing a new tier between standard and first class: standard premium. Fast-forward back to 2024, that was three years ago, and over 2.5 million
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On Saturday 13 April, (and through the night) Network Rail engineers installed lifts and a new footbridge at Dumfries railway station in the south of Scotland. This followed the removal of the old footbridge on 16 December 2023. The work is part of a £3.6 million investment in the
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Network Rail has announced a £3.4 million investment in the maintenance of the Glenfinnan viaduct in Inverness-shire, Scotland. Repairs on the 123-year-old stretch of track will commence later this month (April 2024). Depicted in film and television series, including most notably in the Harry Potter franchise, the viaduct has
