Arriva starts using ETCS trains for its Three-Country Trains

An Arriva train at Aachen station, which runs to Maastricht
An Arriva train at Aachen station, which runs to Maastricht. Image: Wikimedia Commons. Rob Dammers.

Carrier Arriva has put the first FLIRT trains with ETCS into use for the Three-Country Train between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Travellers can now transit between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen without transfers. The new vehicles fulfil ‘a long-cherished wish’, according to Arriva.

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Arriva starts using ETCS trains for its Three-Country Trains

An Arriva train at Aachen station, which runs to Maastricht
An Arriva train at Aachen station, which runs to Maastricht. Image: Wikimedia Commons. Rob Dammers.

Carrier Arriva has put the first FLIRT trains with ETCS into use for the Three-Country Train between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Travellers can now transit between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen without transfers. The new vehicles fulfil ‘a long-cherished wish’, according to Arriva.

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Author: Alexander Molendijk

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The head of ERTMS at the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) Jo de Bosschere feels that the Netherlands should start taking action on the ERTMS roll-out. “I…
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