Alstom announced that it has agreed to divest its Coradia Polyvalent platform, its Reichshoffen production site in France and its...Alstom sells divisions to CAF to meet conditions for Bombardier merger
An increase in extreme weather over the past two years has seen several washouts on the Marches Line in the...8,000 tonnes of ‘rock armour’ to protect UK line against floods
After 14 kilometers and 3.5 years of tunneling, ‘Serena’, a 300-meter Tunnel Boring Machine, reached the Brenner Pass under the...Brenner Base Tunnel reaches the Italian-Austrian border
Rail before road in new German government plans
The new German coalition will invest ‘considerably more in the railways than in the roads’. The SPD, Greens and FDP presented their plans in a coalition agreement on Wednesday, which include plans to lower infrastructure...Read more
More money invested in roads than rail, where is the shift?
Railways are constantly hailed as the future for sustainable mobility, and leaders stumble over each other to say that we need a shift to rail. But when looking at the investments that were made in...Read more
High-speed parcel deliveries via rail are back in the UK
Orion High Speed Logistics, the parcels and light loads division of Rail Operations Group, has launched their much anticipated high-speed service, bringing mass-market parcels traffic back to the British railway scene. A morning departure from...Read more
Covid pass obligatory on trains in Germany
In Germany, it will be compulsory from Wednesday to show a corona pass at work and on public transport. People must have been vaccinated, recovered from Covid or have proof of a recent negative test...Read more
Corona leads to drop in rail accidents
Due to the sharp decrease in train traffic caused by corona measures, the number of serious railway accidents worldwide also fell last year. There were 34 percent fewer collisions involving persons at level crossings, but...Read more
Alstom wants to optimise hydrogen train refueling
Train builder Alstom signed a partnership agreement to optimise the hydrogen refuelling of passenger trains with Hynamics. The goal is to reduce the time needed to refuel the trains, and thus accelerate the development of...Read more
New electric locomotives for old Kazakhstan fleet
Rail freight carrier Silkway Transit LLP from Kazakhstan renews its locomotive fleet with 22 new electric Russian locomotives. The first three 2ES7 ‘Black Granite’ locomotives manufactured by the Ural Locomotive plant in Russia have already...Read more
Trenitalia requests loan at EIB for ILSA trains
Trenitalia has requested 550 million at the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance rolling stock for the operations of ILSA in Spain and operations under their own name in Italy.Read more
‘Every railway manager balances between maintenance and uninterrupted train traffic’
Carrying out preventive maintenance on time or disrupt train traffic as little as possible? “Should you ensure that train traffic can continue now or should you stop it now so that it can continue in...Read more
North of England the big loser in cancellation of HS2 plans
The worst kept secret in Britain is finally out. The high speed rail network, planned for the north east of England is officially scrapped. The transport secretary Grant Shapps made the announcement to the House...Read more