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This autumn, two new train services connecting Ukraine and EU countries Poland and Czech Republic will be launched. The Warsaw – Rava-Ruska – Bryukhovychy connection will be launched this month in cooperation with Polish operator...Read more
Banedanmark signs with Vossloh for preassembled switch systems
Vossloh signed a long-term framework agreement with Banedanmark, the Danish state’s rail infrastructure manager, this Monday. The company will supply Banedanmark with switch systems and corresponding spare parts for a period of four years, with...Read more
HS2 decision clock ticking for UK Prime Minister at political conference
Rishi Sunak, the prime minister of the British government, has a decision to make. It’s one he has been studiously avoiding in a barrage of media interviews. Might he announce that the troubled HS2 will...Read more
Cracked wheel caused Gotthard derailment, but ‘could not have been detected’
The Swiss Safety Investigation Board (SUST) confirmed initial suspicions that the derailment of a freight train in the Gotthard Base Tunnel on 10 August was caused by a faulty wheel. The SUST interim report mentioned...Read more
Deutsche Bahn unveils 2024 timetable: longer ICEs on main routes
The new 2024 timetable of Deutsche Bahn promises up to 25 per cent more seats on high-demand routes, including Berlin to North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin to Munich. The German operator will also introduce additional Sprinter...Read more
VR FleetCare to continue maintaining Estonian train bogies in Finland
Estonian railway company Elron has renewed the maintenance contract of its Flirt train bogies with VR FleetCare after an international tender. The three-year agreement covers the periodic maintenance of bogies and traction wheelsets for 38...Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit: Poland as playground for new technologies
Poland is laying a key piece of new European rail infrastructure. The billion-euro-CPK plan gives the country a change to be frontrunner in new wayside train monitoring systems, monitoring solutions and asset management programmes. For...Read more
A food train is ready in Ukraine to cook 10,000 meals a day
Ukrainian Railways and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation launched the “world’s first food train”. This autonomous kitchen on rails is able to produce and deliver hot meals to the Ukrainian cities in territories with serious...Read more
Two new Trenitalia connections between Naples and Salerno
Trenitalia is continuing to expand its regional services in Italy. Since mid-September, the Italian operator has added two more services between Napoli Centrale station in Naples, the capital of the Italian region of Campina, and...Read more
Edinburgh tram inquiry is scathing in its criticism
It may be a popular public transport corridor now, but there were failures every step of the way with Edinburgh’s rebirth of a tram service. Scrapped in the 1950s and partly rebuilt in the 2010s,...Read more