Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month inaugurated a new 102-kilometre section of the country’s high-speed railway network. The new section is an extension of the existing Ankara-Konya line that now reaches the city...Read more
Alstom announced that it has agreed to divest its Coradia Polyvalent platform, its Reichshoffen production site in France and its TALENT3 platform, currently developed in Hennigsdorf, Germany to the Spanish company CAF. This was one...Read more
Spanish train manufacturer CAF will remodel a Renfe Cercanías Civia unit into a hydrogen train demonstrator. It will be a bi-mode train, which can run on electrified sections as well as section which are not.Read more
The Spanish hyperloop company Zeleros has brought three new partners on board in a new investment round: infrastructure company Acciona, energy specialist EIT InnoEnergy and train builder CAF. According to Zeleros, all three will make...Read more
Renfe is replacing the tender for 72 Medium Distance and Cercanías commuter trains. The company will refrain from buying hybrid diesel-electric trains, and will prioritise technologies such as hydrogen for trains that run on non-electrified...Read more
In order to give new entrants to the market for train protection systems a chance and thus a smoother transition from the existing Class-B systems to ERTMS, The Signalling Company advocates making the system specifications...Read more
Toyota Motor Europe will supply and integrate its fuel cell modules into the zero-emission prototype train that is to be realised by the EU FCH2RAIL project. A consortium made up of partners from Belgium, Germany,...Read more
The European Commission will start negotiations for a grant agreement value of 10 million euros towards the development of a hydrogen-powered train prototype. The FCH2RAIL project will be carried out by a consortium led by...Read more
The city of Lund is gearing up to launch a tram network in the mid-December. Two Urbos 100 light rail vehicles have been already delivered from Spain for tests and adjustment works. Lund will be...Read more
Dutch railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen will continue the research on Automatic Train Operation (ATO). The new round of tests will be carried out in January 2020. It will allow the company to collect more data...Read more
In a modern train such as the SNG (CAF Civity-platform) of the Dutch railway company NS, there are thousands of sensors that collect billions of pieces of data every day. Besides allowing trains to run...Read more
“We want to investigate how we can strengthen the combination of persons and technology with the help of Automatic Train Operation, so that we can make a leap in even better execution of our timetable,”...Read more
Tram network in Birmingham has been extended with a catenary-free section from Birmingham New Street station to the city hall and library. It is the first tram line in the UK without overhead wires. The...Read more
Dutch national railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has successfully performed overnight tests of Automatic Train Operation (ATO). The technology has been examined on the Hanzelijn between Lelystad and Zwolle. For the trial journeys, NS has...Read more
Dutch railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) will test Automatic Train Operation (ATO) on the Hanzelijn between Lelystad and Zwolle. The operator will examine the unmanned driving at the nighttime between 10th and 11th December. Its...Read more
