With the structural work on the Carinthian side finished, the shell of the Koralm Tunnel is now successfully completed, ÖBB announced this week. The 33 kilometre long tunnel is part of the new double-track, electrified,...Read more
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has submitted two applications for federal grant funding totaling nearly 1.3 billion dollars. The applications are the first major push for a continued federal partnership under the newly enacted Bipartisan...Read more
Slovakia’s Economics Minister Richard Sulík believes that a hydrogen train will start running on the Nové Zámky – Prievidza line by the end of this parliamentary term, which runs until 2024. He said this at...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and its French counterpart SNCF are making 15,000 tickets available at a reduced price as of Wednesday to mark the occasion of 15 years of high-speed cross-border connections. DB and SNCF also...Read more
Austrian railway company ÖBB has officially withdrawn from the joint venture responsible for the broad gauge extension from Kosice in Slovakia to Austrian capital Vienna. It has offered its shares for sale to its Russian,...Read more
The Elizabeth Line, named after the longest serving monarch in British history, opens today to Queens and commoners alike, just in time for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Tunnelling under some of the most expensive real...Read more
Renfe and the United Arab Emirates’ Etihad Rail concluded last week’s 16th Annual Middle East Rail event with several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on knowledge transfers. Etihad Rail inked a similar deal with the UK’s...Read more
BackgroundGSM-R has become obsolete and is no longer the future of rail data transmission. The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) will have to replace it, taking into account the latest global data transmission standards.Read more
A Ouigo train travelling from Madrid to Barcelona ripped off several hundred of metres of overhead line from the high-speed railway line on Saturday, causing major delays for thousands of passengers.Read more
Network Rail has completed the construction of Reston station on the East Coast Main Line (ECML), between Edinburgh and Newcastle. Today’s (23 May) very first scheduled call is the 06.16 TransPennine Express service from Edinburgh...Read more
The safety of people who work on the track continues to be a matter of considerable concern, writes the UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in its latest 2021 annual report, published last week.Read more
Hardt Hyperloop and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) have extended their existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) this week, thereby continuing their cooperation in the field of hyperloop related research and innovation.Read more
An under-reported study has emerged proposing several strategic alternatives to the HS2 Phase 2b Eastern Leg – the contentiously cancelled project in the UK government Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP). An...Read more
Thursday, May 19 marks 45 years since the arrival of the last Orient Express at Sirkeci Station in Istanbul, Turkey. While Istanbul wasn’t the first destination of this legendary train service nor the last, it...Read more
Bane NOR wants to further reduce the environmental impact of its railway infrastructure projects by mandating an environmental assessment and certification for all upcoming works, the company said on Wednesday.Read more
