HS1 shares first results from harvesting brake energy from trains
Recuperated brake energy trains on the UK’s high-speed line HS1 can power more than 375 homes on an annual basis. That’s the conclusion on the part of HS1, the company operating the high-speed line, following...Read more
The Netherlands and Belgium are neighbours yet ERTMS rollout worlds apart
Belgium prides itself that 52 per cent or 3.333 kilometres of its national railway network is equipped with ETCS. Across the border in the Netherlands, by contrast, ‘only’ four lines are currently under ERTMS. Indeed,...Read more
Belgium cements ETCS frontrunner status with completion of new project
Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel on Sunday completed the rollout of digital signalling ETCS on the 122-kilometre line between Liège and Namen, the company announces on Tuesday. The project pushes the overall rollout of trackside ETCS...Read more
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands sign for new cross-border service
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have signalled their intention to start a new cross-border rail service between the German city of Aachen and Liège in Belgium in December. In the Netherlands, the new service by...Read more
First edition of RailTech Belgium opens registration
On 6-7 June, the first edition of RailTech Belgium will bring the Belgian and international railway industries together in Brussels. The registration is now open, what will this event be all about?Read more
ProRail and Infrabel to improve rail infrastructure at the North Sea Port
ProRail and Infrabel, the Dutch and Belgian rail infrastructure managers will further collaborate with North Sea Port to increase rail freight between the two countries and start a follow-up study this year. The cooperation aims at...Read more
Škoda Group acquires The Signalling Company to grow ETCS business
Škoda Group has acquired Belgian onboard safety software and signalling systems developer The Signalling Company, the Czech rolling stock manufacturer announced on Tuesday. The firm will be integrated as a signalling business unit within the...Read more
Fewer accidents at level crossings in Belgium, yet more fatalities
Belgian Infrastructure manager Infrabel recorded 32 accidents at level crossings in 2022, 14 less than in the year prior. However, the number of fatalities increased from 9 to 11. They were mostly pedestrians. Infrabel therefore...Read more
Infrabel works on regulation to permit diesel-electric locs in Belgium
Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel has new regulation in the making that will allow diesel-hybrid locomotives on the network. The company had received request from operators for permissions, sister publication Flows reports, which set things in...Read more
Sharp increase in cable theft in Belgium
Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel last year registered 466 cases of cable theft, a threefold increase over 2021 and a new record. As a result, Infrabel and the federal railway police (SPC) will jointly step up...Read more
Belgium commits to phasing out diesel-powered rolling stock
Belgium is dedicated to finding alternative to the remaining diesel-powered rolling stock in Flanders, federal minister for Mobility Georges Gilkinet said in response to questions by a member of parliament this week. Battery-electric trains are...Read more
Infrabel completes 12-year upgrade project of Belgian port shunting yard
Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel on Monday inaugurated the new shunting yard in the Port of Zeebrugge. The project, labelled the ‘biggest in the history of the port’ by the various stakeholders, took 12 years to...Read more
Major improvements for Brussels’ public transport infrastructure planned for 2023
The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB) will carry out major improvements to its public transport infrastructure this year. The works come on the back of a 23-percent increase in the number of journeys last year...Read more