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
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
A new method for calculating track access charges is currently being assessed by the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM). One of the suggestions that infrastructure manager ProRail has included in this proposal is...Read more
Network Rail is expected to invest 47 billion pounds or almost 52 billion Euros in the improvement and expansion of the British railways in the next five years, starting next year. It’s a follow-up on...Read more
The European Commission’s latest plan for helping ensure the timely delivery of a unified signalling system ‘reflects the reality’ of the current implementation process, according to a leading rail influencer. Libor Lochman, Executive Director of the...Read more
“It would be great if there was a European requirement to equip trains with RFID tags”, says Juliette van Driel, Chain Director Wayside monitoring systems at ProRail. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags enable the monitoring...Read more
