Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Plans for a high-speed rail connection between Lisbon and Madrid have been given a boost by an “implementing decision” between Spanish, Portuguese, and European Commission authorities […]
Oxford Cowley Branch Line is set to reopen by 2030 after its closure in 1963. The move is part of a multi-million-pound investment by the government […]
Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel will be doing major maintenance work on the route to Brussels Airport Zaventem, meaning the number of trains serving the airport […]
Europe is set to gain another irresistible train route, from France’s City of Lights to Italy’s Divine Coast, as Belmond, who operate the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, gets set […]
Looking to increase its capacity over the coming years, Eurostar has put in an order worth up to €2 billion with train manufacturer Alstom. The first […]
London’s Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has inaugurated the first of 54 new trains that authorities say will transform travel in the UK capital. Replacing trains that […]
The night trains linking Paris with Berlin and Vienna are now expected to be discontinued. The Vienna route was reintroduced two years before the relaunch of […]
The world’s railways are celebrating an important anniversary at the end of September 2025 with special events to mark 200 years since the first ever passenger […]
Rail services between London and Scotland are about to be boosted with a new train to Glasgow from all-electric operator Lumo. The low-cost firm’s proposed extension […]
Anyone kicking themselves for missing out on cheap Eurostar tickets during the operator’s recent flash sale can still find bargains for train getaways this autumn and […]
Hardt Hyperloop, a Dutch tech company, has set a new European speed record after its hyperloop transport system hit 85 kilometres per hour and pulled off […]
Starting from 1 September 2025, Scottish train operating company ScotRail will no longer apply peak fares. Supporting the Scottish Government’s ambition to reach net zero, the […]
A new paperless ticketing system that works by tracking passenger journeys via GPS is being trialled on railways in the United Kingdom, in a bid to […]
After more than three decades, the passenger train connecting Baku and Aghdam has officially resumed, offering travellers a new gateway into a region that is not […]
As autumn approaches, so does the lure of Oktoberfest and this year, travellers can literally board a “beer train” to take them from Italy to Germany’s […]