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Transforming Rail Travel in Central and Eastern Europe
This article first appeared in the Railway-News Magazine Issue 4 2023.
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is joining the high-speed rail (HSR) revolution.
After decades of little investment in many parts of its rail infrastructure, it’s great to see large projects like Centralny Port Komunikacyjny’s (CPK) Transport Hub and Rail Baltica taking shape.
These projects are part of the wider Three Seas Initiative, a forum of 12 countries spanning the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas and covering a third of the EU region, which aims to improve transport, energy and digital connections along the EU’s north-south axis.
Under this initiative HSR networks are being developed that will connect neighbouring countries, eventually creating an integrated HSR network from Poland and the Baltics down to Croatia that is forecast to be 4,500km in length by 2050.
