The German new flat-fee public transport ticket is going on sale on Monday. The Deutschland ticket costs 49 euros per...Germany’s long-awaited 49-euro ticket on sale on Monday
The financial damage to rolling stock due to graffiti runs into the millions annually, recent reports from Renfe, ÖBB, Dutch...Graffiti damage runs into the millions for rail operators
The Deutsche Bahn Group on Thursday published its annual results, announcing a positive operating result and being back in the...Poor punctuality, losses after tax and DB Cargo overshadow DB Group results
Germany breaks with ‘road finances road’, money will go to rail
Eighty per cent of the money from the CO2 surcharge of the German truck toll will from 2024 onwards go to railway investments, instead of road. This decision comes after a three-day retreat where the...Read more
Edinburgh Tram operator fully recruited for Newhaven Line
The original recruitment drive for the Edinburgh Trams attracted over ten thousand applicants. So it comes as no surprise that the operators of the system in Scotland’s capital city have announced that the forthcoming extension...Read more
Ukrainian ‘Hospital on Wheels’ completes 100th mission
Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, the medical trains launched by Ukrainian Railways and Doctors Without Borders have evacuated 3,000 wounded civilians in Ukraine. This Monday marked the 100th flight of the medical...Read more
Welsh trains come home to a real fire – in flames
The much heralded rolling stock upgrade across Wales has hit the buffers. The deployment of a multi-billion pound modernisation of the passenger fleet is in disarray, after a number of fires onboard diesel trains. The...Read more
Austria and Czech Republic join forces to bring ‘Emperor Franz Josephs railway’ into the 21st century
Named after Emperor Franz Joseph I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ‘Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahn’ is a railway that connects the Austrian capital Vienna to Prague in Czech Republic. Its first section went into operation in 1868. Now,...Read more
Polish and Czech rail infrastructure managers discuss investments and cooperation
Polish railway infrastructure manager PKP PLK and its Czech counterpart Správa železnic have agreed to strengthen their cooperation during a joint meeting in Warsaw. The talks included the exchanging experiences in investment implementation and a...Read more
‘Demanding year’ at Bane NOR leads to another high-profile resignation
Bane NOR executive development director Stine Undrum has announced her resignation, marking the second-high profile departure from the Norwegian infrastructure manager this month. She will be replaced by Utbygging’s Bettina Sandvin from 11 April onwards.Read more
Passenger train and rail freight services back on track in Germany
Train traffic was largely back to normal in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Germany following one of the largest rail and transport strikes in recent history. Regional traffic was first to start back...Read more
Seven thousand applications for 60-person tour of famous Birmingham signal box
It may be easier to win the National Lottery than to see inside an iconic example of 1960s brutalist railway architecture. Network Rail, the organisers of one-off public tours of the former Birmingham New Street...Read more
Entry of Ouigo and Iryo in Spain made passenger numbers soar
The passenger numbers on the Madrid-València corridor doubled and surpassed one million users in the final quarter of 2022, compared to the same period the year before, shows the quarterly report of the rail market...Read more