Europe and train travel go together like sunsets and the Seine. That is: perfectly. The continent boasts some of the world’s most scenic stretches of railway and overnight cross-country sleeper services – but one thing that there could be more of is access to high-speed rail. At least, that’s what the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) is campaigning for.

The CER has proposed an ambitious scheme that would see every major city in Europe connected by high-speed rail, Euronews reports . The group’s executive director Alberto Mazzola told the news outlet that he expects the European Commission to announce their support for the scheme later this month.

Capital cities will be the first to be linked

‘We have been working for four or five years as an a

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