Deutsche Bahn (DB) has sold 10 million so-called 9-euro tickets in the first month of sales. The temporary flat-fee public transport ticket has also helped in restoring passenger numbers on DB Regio trains.Read more
Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) has ordered seven Mireo Plus H hydrogen trains from Siemens Mobility. Delivery is set for autumn 2024, with first operations on the Heidekrautbahn (RB27) network planned in December the same year.Read more
Alstom, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the TU Berlin are moving their research project “Automated regional trains in Lower Saxony, Germany” to the next phase, the partners recently announced.Read more
Swiss railway company SBB has inked a deal with Stadler for the purchase of seven additional Giruno trains. The units will be used for SBB’s international services to Germany, as its current Eurocity compositions from...Read more
Partner articleRailApp introduced a financial module for its rail sector planning application earlier this year. Using this new feature, railway companies and professionals alike can generate a cost specification following an assignment or job. As such,...Read more
Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) summer timetable went into effect on Sunday with more than 3 million seats available on the long-distance ICE trains on a weekly basis. This is a 20-percent increase over 2019 and a...Read more
DB has already sold more than 6,5 million tickets for 9 euros in recent days. That is double the number of flat-fee tickets sold since the end of May. Over the Whitsun weekend, 86,000 people...Read more
Transport association Allianz pro Schiene has taken aim at the German ministry of Transport over what it calls a lack of progress regarding the so-called Deutschlandtakt, a massive multi-year overhaul of the German railway network....Read more
The public prosecutor’s office in Munich will be investigating three employees of Deutsche Bahn following last Friday’s derailment that left five people dead and several more injured.Read more
Earlier this month, the renewed signalling and interlocking technology on the Ruhr-Sieg line in Germany was inaugurated. This marks the first-such commissioning under the fast-track Digital Rail Germany programme.Read more
15 European railway track technology companies announced the formation of the Digital Railway Solutions Alliance (DRS Alliance) at the IAF rail trade fair in Münster, Germany last week. The goal of the alliance is an...Read more
The line between the German towns of Oberau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen where on Friday a regional double-decker train derailed was slated for repairs and maintenance later this month. This reported German newspaper Die Welt reported on...Read more
The death toll of train derailment in southern Germany on Friday has risen to five, Deutsche Bahn (DB) and local authorities reported over the weekend. The efforts to remove the stranded train cars at the...Read more
The German transport authorities Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) have awarded DB Regio a contract for the operation of five routes on the Niederrhein-Münsterland network. In addition, VRR and NWL have ordered a...Read more