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
The first of the procurements of Rail Baltica’s basic route has been launched, with the tender for the main line in Latvia. It involves more than 200 kilometres of infrastructure – railway foundations and superstructures...Read more
In Italy, freight wagons using certain brakes now have to operate with a maximum speed of 80 km/h instead of 100 km/h. The Italian authority ANSFISA has just introduced a new regulation for trains using...Read more
Deutsche Bahn has started dismantling the heavily damaged railway bridge over the river Ems, which has long been a bottleneck for Dutch-German cross-border rail traffic between German state Niedersachsen and province Groningen in the Netherlands. Read more
With new and improved railway connections, the Northern Netherlands can fulfill an important linking function in Europe and close a gap in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). This appears from a report published by the...Read more
COLUMN – The reputation of international train tickets is not as positive as it should be. International
train tickets are considered expensive and difficult to book. In reality, they can be amazingly cheap, but are a...Read more
After almost two years, Swedish operator SJ will run train services between Stockholm and Oslo in Norway again starting on 12 December. The Norwegian government has announced that passenger train traffic will be allowed across...Read more
At the arrival of the Connecting Europe Express in Amsterdam, CEO of Dutch national railways NS Marjan Rintel draws attention to the slow connection with Germany. “From Amsterdam you can go to Paris and back,...Read more
“We have to reduce track access charges, and especially Germany has a problem with this”, said Oldag Caspar of Germanwatch during a panel discussion at the arrival of the Connecting Europe Express in Berlin. But,...Read more
Dutch and German officials called to add the Zwolle-Enschede-Münster connection to the priority TEN-T network during a meeting with members of parliament in The Hague. By measures such as doubling a section of track in the...Read more
German party Die Grünen has presented a plan for a European-wide night train network. They sharply criticise the German railway policies of the past years and call for expansion of infrastructure, lowering track access charges...Read more
To celebrate the European Year of Rail, a train that will run across Europe has left Lissabon, Portugal on Thursday. In reality, the Connecting Europe Express will consist of three trains due to the different...Read more
The Translate4Rail project has reached a milestone on the border between Italy and Austria. Last month, drivers and dispatchers from both countries have tested a prototype translation system in a practical trial.Read more
The first Régiolis trains for French-German cross-border services were presented to elected representatives in Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) in June. The French Grand Est region wants to connect with its German neighbours by...Read more
Infrabel has entered the final phase of the electrification of railway line 19 between Mol and Hamont in Belgium. The railway infrastructure manager expects that the 33-kilometer-long railway line can be put into use in...Read more
