It’s now just three weeks to go until International Rail Summit ‘24 in Estonia, and the Rail Baltica megaproject is the gift that keeps on giving. As work…
Germany’s most important rail coalition, the Pro-Rail Alliance, has ripped into the government’s new 2040 traffic forecast, claiming that its policy approach is at best “antiquated.” Instead of…
Swiss rail operator SBB unveiled its first completely renovated tilting InterCity (ICN) yesterday, one of 44 trains set to be completely modernised by 2031. The ICN trains originally…
It’s budget time in France, and while there are plans for more of the same in terms of rail investment, there is a new focus on sleeper services.…
From December, the state-backed Swedish Railways (SJ) will no longer be handing over its night train operations in Denmark to a private company. Instead, SJ’s own drivers will…
‘Collusively timed wagon sales,’ ‘the existence of the cartel’… The EU’s executive has fined Czechia’s state-run rail company České dráhy (‘ČD’) and Austria’s ÖBB 48.7 million euros for…
Sunday’s train derailment in Madrid, which caused chaos on the Spanish rail network this weekend, was instigated, Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente has told journalists, on purpose by…
Time to surf at speed! One of Germany’s most important city connections, the Hamburg-Berlin railway line, is to become the country’s guinea pig route for mobile communications with…
Network Rail and its partners on the East West Rail project have reached a “huge milestone” in the project this week, with a test train successfully completing its…
Passenger traffic in southern Spain will experience disturbances for most of 2025 due to infrastructure upgrades in the context of the Algeciras-Zaragoza freight highway development. The adaptation of…
Deutsche Bahn and Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, have revealed a new joint venture: DataHub Europe. It’s a new platform that offers…
A person has died and fifteen people were injured after two passenger trains collided in Wales on Monday night. Major disruption was expected to continue along the railways…
Rail services to and from Madrid were completely upended this weekend after a Renfe train derailed and overturned while in a key high-speed tunnel in the Spanish capital.…
The UK government-backed high speed rail project, HS2, is to pass from government oversight to … government oversight. The arms-length government quango set up to deliver the new…
Another huge investment for the Polish rail operator. PKP Intercity has announced plans for its biggest train order ever, launching a tender worth more than 2.3 billion euros…