The October 2025 issue of Today’s Railways Europe contains all the latest railway news from mainland Europe, plus our regular features and a selection of interesting and informative articles. Brought to you by our team of informed correspondents based throughout the European continent.
Feature articles this month include:
Dual Gauge for the Mediterranean Corridor: The connection of cities, industries and tourist destinations along Spain’s east coast to the European standard gauge network has been a long-held ambition and the dual-gauging of the route is a story spanning many decades, as Mike Bent explains.
Train Thur Doller Alsaca: Branch Line Atmosphere in Haut-Rhin: For nearly half a century the Train Thur Doller Alsace association in eastern France has been developing a successful heritage railway operation with an impressive variety of locos and rolling stock. Paul Conlan explores the line and its fleet.
Istanbul: Where East Meets West: The rail network in Istanbul has expanded rapidly in recent decades to connect the European and Asian sides of Turkey’s largest city and bring ever more of its 15 million inhabitants onto the system. Keith Fender explores the main line and urban rail network on both sides of the Bosphorous.
News stories this month include:
- DB Cargo plans major cost cuts with depot closures and loco sales
- Virgin to order Alstom trains for cross-channel services
- Go-ahead for bridge to Sicily
- 16 dead in Lisboa Glória funicular derailment
- RegioJet and LEO Express launch long distance services in Poland
- Koralm Tunnel opening brings major changes in ÖBB 2026 timetable
- Budapest M2–H8 link planning work to resume
- Krakow orders first new bidirectional trams
- Siemens to automate Paris Metro Line 13
- Three derailments in 24 hours on Belgian coastal tramway
- Amsterdam launches tender for new trams
- DB and PKP to expand Germany–Poland services
- Portugal loses last long-distance international trains
- RegioJet to operate diesel trains north of Praha
- New Praha-Bubny station opens
- New RSL Vectrons for ZSSK
- Appenzeller Bahnen to automate Rheineck–Walzenhausen line
- Graz-Köflacher Bahn goes electric
- Wildfires close Galicia high speed line
- Valladolid-Campo Grande station to be rebuilt
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie province to revive local services on two lines
- Budapest Children’s Railway celebrates 75 years with new museum loco
- Voith Maxima stars at Magdeburger Eisenbahnmuseum gala
- Polish Class EN95 EMU preserved
- Poland’s longest ever narrow gauge train?
- Panoramic coaches for Fondazione FS
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