The project for the Turin-Lyon railway continues to create controversies in France. The country is running the serious risk of missing out on key EU funds from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The Lyon-Turin Transalpine...Read more
This autumn, two new train services connecting Ukraine and EU countries Poland and Czech Republic will be launched. The Warsaw – Rava-Ruska – Bryukhovychy connection will be launched this month in cooperation with Polish operator...Read more
Rail Baltica has been awarded 928 million euros from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), a European funding instrument. Combined with national co-financing from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the three Baltic States that the new high-speed line...Read more
An agreement between the EU Commission and Ukraine allows the second to benefit from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funds. The deal, which was signed earlier this week, is an important milestone towards post-war Ukrainian...Read more
Czech infrastructure manager Správa železnic has finished the reconstruction of a bridge and tunnel near Děčín, important for international rail freight traffic to and from Germany. Earlier on Thursday, the first freight trains started using...Read more
Adif has awarded a contract for the preparations for switching the 138-kilometre long Huesca-Canfranc line in Spain to the standard gauge. It is part of an effort to reopen a cross-border railway across the Pyrenees...Read more
For the first time in two decades, a completely new section of railway tracks on the main Hungarian network has been constructed. As part of the modernisation of the line from the suburbs of Budapest...Read more
AnalysisIn the first round of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), 77,7 percent will go to railway projects, an analysis by RailTech.com shows. Sixty-seven rail projects across Europe will be...Read more
The European Commission has selected 135 transport infrastructure projects to receive subsidies from CEF transport, an EU funding instrument with a budget of 5,4 billion euros for this round. Eighteen of the selected projects are...Read more
To improve infrastructure for military and civilian purposes, the EU has selected 22 projects and grants 339 million euros from the Military Mobility fund in the first round, having accelerated the approval in face of...Read more
In the province of Antwerp, 65 kilometres of track were equipped with the European safety system ETCS within two days. With this step, 40 percent of the Belgian railway is now equipped with ETCS. Infrabel’s...Read more
Sweden-based construction group Skanska and the Czech Elektrizace železnic Praha are selected to modernise part of a railway line from Czech Republic to Slovakia. The modernisation of the border section between Lanžhot (Czech Republic) and...Read more
Railways are constantly hailed as the future for sustainable mobility, and leaders stumble over each other to say that we need a shift to rail. But when looking at the investments that were made in...Read more
InterviewRail Baltica is without a doubt one of the largest railway projects in Europe, but there exist doubts about whether the benefits outweigh the high costs in the Baltic states. RailTech talked to Priit Humal...Read more
A call for proposals launched on 16 September under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Transport programme makes available 7 billion euros for projects targeting new, upgraded and improved European transport infrastructure. The majority of...Read more