Topic: Floods

Heavy storms cause rail havoc in Southern Germany

Another year–another round of heavy spring/summer rainfall that causes problems in the German railway network. Last weekend, multiple services were disrupted in Bavaria, with impairments persisting on Monday,…
Flooding of railway lines near Bologna costs RFI 90 million

More than 350 people, 60 vehicles and 21 contractors have been deployed by Italian railway manager RFI to restore the damaged infrastructure after flooding that hit the Emilia…
The lessons Infrabel learned from the flood: ‘We had never expected the rail embankments to become so unstable’

“The flooding of last year was the worst disaster we ever experienced on the Belgian railways”, said civil engineer at Infrabel Bart Kamoen at the RailTech webinar on…
Deutsche Bahn donates 4.65 million euros to flood victims

A fundraising campaign by Deutsche Bahn for those affected by the floods in the summer raised a total of 4.65 million euros. This sum benefits DB employees, who…