Hamburg S-Bahn to equip all stations with free Wi-Fi
By autumn 2019, 50 stations of Hamburg S-Bahn will be equipped with free Wi-Fi connection. An investment of 4 million Euros allows the completion of the Wi-Fi installation in urban rail stations, covering the entire S-Bahn...Read more
Vossloh becomes European rail milling leader
German rail technology company Vossloh acquired the rail milling unit of Strabag Rail. Four milling machines and around 30 employees strengthened Vossloh’s business and allowed it to position itself as a leading provider of rail...Read more
Westbahn to return to German railway market
Austrian open access rail operator Westbahn will return to the German market after a five-year break. The company intends to launch an international train from Vienna to Munich in April 2019. The service will be...Read more
Stadler to supply 64 Flirt trains to Hanover S-Bahn
Stadler will design, build and deliver 64 three-car electric multiple units of the Flirt type for French-based public transport operator Transdev. All the trains will enter service on the 12 routes of Hanover S-Bahn by...Read more
NS CEO: journey time Amsterdam – Berlin to be reduced to four hours in 2023
Dutch Railways (NS), Deutsche Bahn, the Dutch and German Ministry of Infrastructure and the German states involved made far-reaching agreements during the rail trade fair InnoTrans to accelerate the intercity service between Amsterdam and Berlin....Read more
Alstom’s hydrogen trains enter passenger service in Germany
Alstom’s hydrogen train Coradia iLint rolled into the station for the first time in Bremervörde, Germany, this Sunday. Starting on Monday, two iLints will enter commercial service according to a fixed timetable in Lower Saxony. The...Read more
Bombardier opens new high-tech laboratory in Germany for railway technology
Bombardier Transportation opened a new high-tech laboratory in Mannheim, Germany Thursday. Bombardier has invested around 1 million Euro in the new laboratory. The laboratory will develop and test pioneering electronics systems for train control and...Read more
Surge of international freight traffic in the Netherlands
In 2017, more than 41 million tonnes of goods in total were transported by rail from, to and within the Netherlands. Over 93 per cent of this volume was loaded and/or unloaded abroad. This means...Read more
Germany approves Alstom’s hydrogen train for passenger service
The hydrogen fuel cell CoradiaiLint passenger train from manufacturer Alstom has been approved for commercial operations in Germany. In Berlin, the certificate was officially handed over last week. Germany thus becomes the first country in...Read more
‘Combination with Regional Express best option for Eindhoven-Düsseldorf connection’
Linking the intercity connection between the Dutch cities Eindhoven and Venlo and the German Regional Express to Düsseldorf has the most potential in connecting Eindhoven with Düsseldorf. This direct intercity connection, with one train per...Read more
Dutch track access charges to be lowered to ‘German level’
Dutch track access charges will be reduced significantly next year to be in line with the German tariffs, which will be reduced by half this year. This is part of a measure package proposed by...Read more
DB cancels plan to run high-speed trains to UK
Deutsche Bahn has cancelled plans to run high-speed trains from the German cities Cologne and Frankfurt to London. According to the British newspaper The Independent this is due to a ‘significantly changed economic environment’. DB...Read moreAlstom: no problems with delivery of hydrogen-powered train
Alstom is ‘fully capable’ of delivering hydrogen-powered trains in time to the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is also able to provide maintenance. The train manufacturer said this in response to an announcement made...Read more