The new metro extension in Milan has gotten off to an inauspicious start, after the line had a serious malfunction—apparently due to its Hitachi-run software—less than 24 hours…
Train services through Tikkurila railway yard, a key site along one of the busiest rail corridors in Finland, will return to their previous schedules at the end of…
ScotRail, the Scottish government run passenger operator, and Network Rail, the UK government infrastructure agency, have signed a strengthened alliance agreement. If that looks complicated – don’t worry.…
Out with the new, in with the old. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and the Pro-Rail Alliance have hit out against the speed at which Germany…
European Sleeper, the Lowlands’ private night train operator, had planned to launch a new service between Amsterdam and Barcelona in 2025. But due to “significant challenges”, the company…
Next month, the 80-week Betuwe line works between the Netherlands and Germany will officially start. DB InfraGO will be building a third track between Emmerich and Oberhausen near…
PARTNER – A new player enters the rail market – but one with a great deal of experience. AGS Holland – which has been the trusted partner for…
“There is life beyond the budget.” That’s what Prime Minister António Costa stated as Portugal marked a major milestone in its high-speed rail ambitions, awarding the concession for…
Rail is growing in the world of online booking. Emerging Travel Group (ETG), a UAE-based online travel company that operates several top travel booking brands, has signed a…
Despite what you may have heard from HS2, the biggest station to be completed in the UK this decade will not be in a west London industrial estate.…
The European Commission has given Poland’s CPK infrastructure megaproject around 38 million euros to draw up the designs for a key part of its future “Y” route, set…
Danish private rail company Lokaltog A/S, which covers areas of Denmark that Scandinavia’s biggest rail operator DSB doesn’t, has signed a deal with Stadler for 14 battery-powered FLIRT…
European Union ERTMS director Jo De Bosschere is looking forward to SpoorPro’s ERTMS Congress on October 22. “Nice to meet all my Dutch friends in the rail sector…
A police escort for bridge beams, you say? 565 tonnes of them? All 15 of them lifted and laid in under a week? Watch dramatic drone footage of…
Euston, Crewe, and Manchester could all be back on the railway agenda. A U-turn, that most unlikely of railway manoeuvres, is on the tracks, over the future of…