The roll out of the European safety system ERTMS is happening much too slowly and costing too much money. A...EU coordinator: ERTMS roll-out too slow and too expensive
Stadler wins its first major contract in Slovenia. The company is designing and building 26 single and double-decker multiple units...Slovenian rail operator orders 26 trains from Stadler
Ricardo Rail has been training rail technicians to maintain the Dutch national track signaling system ATB since 2004. In the...Ricardo Rail prepares rail technicians for first defects
Free online course on Railway Systems Engineering
For the second time, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands offers a free online course on Railway Systems Engineering through the online learning platform edX. From all over the world, people interested in the...Read more
Call for papers RailTech Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is open
The call for papers for the RailTech Intelligent Rail Summit 2018 is now open. The summit will be held in Malmö, Sweden this November. Themes include infrastructure monitoring and data management. The deadline to submit the...Read more
Siemens wins Norwegian ETCS contract worth 800 million Euros
Bane NOR, the state-owned agency responsible for the Norwegian national railway infrastructure, has contracted Siemens to upgrade the signaling equipment of the entire Norwegian rail network to the European Train Control System (ETCS). The contract...Read more
‘Apply one single price on European rail corridors’
On European rail freight corridors, one single price should apply. Currently, the method for calculating track access charges differs greatly among countries, which means procedures and rules are complicated. It would be more logical if...Read more
Bombardier wins contract to provide 40 high-speed regional trains in Sweden
Bombardier Transportation announced Tuesday that it has signed a contract with Swedish public transport agency Västtrafik to supply 40 high-speed electric multiple unit trains to cater to growing regional traffic in Sweden’s region of Västra...Read more
‘European track access charges international freight more or less harmonised’
When comparing track acces charges for international freight trains in different countries, we have somewhat of a harmonised level in Europe, concluded Stefan Marschnig at the Track Access Summit, held in Amsterdam last week. Although...Read more
ERFA: ‘We have forgotten that modal shift is a priority’
Railways operators pay for every train kilometre. In principle, this makes all railways tollgates, while only 20 per cent of European highways and main roads require toll. A new balance must be created to initiate...Read more
Mass rail strikes underway in France
Three months of rail strikes by union organisations of French national rail operator SNCF started this week. Yesterday and today were the first two days of the strike, which involves cancellations of passenger services as...Read more
Malzewicze-Brest border crossing main bottleneck on New Silk Road
While volumes on the New Silk Road are rapidly increasing, the route also has some serious bottlenecks, such as the Malzewicze-Brest border crossing, connecting Poland and Belarus on the most popular railway route between Europe...Read more
Siemens and Alstom signed agreement for merger rail businesses
Siemens and Alstom have signed a business combination agreement for the merger of the mobility division of Siemens and the rail traction drives division of Alstom. The agreement was signed by the companies on March...Read more