Video has emerged Thursday of a heavily flooded train station near Lisbon after torrential rains left one person dead in the area surrounding Portugal’s capital. The mayor of Lisbon is asking ...

I was at the station for a train east into the Douro Valley, the first of four rail journeys I would be making during the next week. It was a remarkable two-and-a-half hour ride.

The operator has apparently applied to use London’s Paddington station and the Channel Tunnel. In other words, a direct train link between Spain and the UK could be on the cards.

The rail route between Lisbon to Porto is already the niftiest (and greenest) way of travelling between Portugal ’s capital and its second city. The fastest trains currently take just under ...