UpdateThree days after suspending traffic between Finland and Russia, VR Transpoint will resume services effective Wednesday, 30 March. The decision to restart rail freight operations to and from Russia follows on consultation with the UK...Read more
Finnish operator VR Group has suspended all passenger and freight trains to Russia. On Sunday, the last Allegro train from St Petersburg to Helsinki left the station. Read more
Following a breach of its franchise agreement, London & South Eastern Railway Limited (LSER) has been issued with a penalty of 28 million euros (23.5 million pounds) by the British government. The penalty notice, announced...Read more
Travellers on the Eurostar from Amsterdam and Rotterdam may not be able to get off at the station Brussels-Midi in the future. This has emerged from the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management requesting...Read more
AnalysisThings are moving fast for the privately owned Munich-based firm FlixMobility, which has been running FlixTrains since 2017. The acquisition of the American bus icon Greyhound in 2021 has shown a change in strategy for...Read more
The Korean Ministry of Transport has established new measures to prevent high-speed train accidents following the derailment of a KTX high-speed train on January 5. It includes shortening the maintenance cycle of the wheels and...Read more
The rail supply sector, represented by the Railway Industry Association (RIA), has set out what it calls five ‘tests’ for Great British Railways (GBR), the new overarching body, expected to take over the management of...Read more
Russian railways, Belarusian railways and their subsidiaries have been suspended from the International Union of Railways (UIC) because of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia calls on other railways and companies to exclude both...Read more
Every railway undertaking should have a ten year roadmap for the implementation of Automatic Train Operation (ATO). This is not an easy task and there are many challenges that have to be faced, sees Jack...Read more
Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia says it is ready to evacuate city residents near the demarcation line on Thursday morning and has entered the emergency operation mode. Most trains are scheduled to remain running on the day...Read more
Europe’s major railway players have called for massive investments in rail. 33 railway companies from 24 European countries signed a pact to that end during the European Railway Summit in Paris on Monday. With the...Read more
After five years of negotiations, the new EU rules on road tolls are in place. The European Parliament adopted the Eurovignette Directive on Thursday 17 February. However, the new rules do still not provide a...Read more
Nearly 30 thousand Saudi women have signed up for the 30 positions of train drivers, a profession previously not open to women in the Kingdom. The female train drivers will work on the Haramain high-speed...Read more
New Spanish railway operator ILSA has gained a third shareholder next to Trenitalia and Air Nostrum with infrastructure investment group Globalvia, the Expansión daily reported on Tuesday. The company also announced that it aims to...Read more
The Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) is combining its passenger and rail freight operations into one company in an effort to achieve financial stability, transport minister Nikolay Sabev announced earlier this month. ‘Returning to the freight...Read more
