The European Rail Supply Industry Association (UNIFE), ALLRAIL and the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EU Body Europe’s Rail on Wednesday for a new study...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
Tunnelling crews achieved the first breakthrough of the twin-tube Semmering base tunnel construction project in Austria on Friday. The hole-through moment came some seven years after the start of construction.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
HS2 Limited, the company delivering Britain’s high speed railway between London and Birmingham, has begun work on the first of a series of ‘green tunnels’, designed to carry the railway though environmentally sensitive regions. The...Read more
It will not be until 2036 that capacity will increase on the Dutch high-speed railway HSL to accommodate additional international trains, state secretary for infrastructure and water management Vivianne Heijen told parliament this week.Read more
Construction efforts at Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands might put a stop to Eurostar departures to London, state secretary for infrastructure and water management Vivianne Heijen said in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and its French counterpart SNCF are making 15,000 tickets available at a reduced price as of Wednesday to mark the occasion of 15 years of high-speed cross-border connections. DB and SNCF also...Read more
Renfe and the United Arab Emirates’ Etihad Rail concluded last week’s 16th Annual Middle East Rail event with several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on knowledge transfers. Etihad Rail inked a similar deal with the UK’s...Read more
A Ouigo train travelling from Madrid to Barcelona ripped off several hundred of metres of overhead line from the high-speed railway line on Saturday, causing major delays for thousands of passengers.Read more
An under-reported study has emerged proposing several strategic alternatives to the HS2 Phase 2b Eastern Leg – the contentiously cancelled project in the UK government Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP). An...Read more
Deutsche Bahn has unveiled the interior of the upcoming ICE 3neo long-distance trains. The new interiors are designed to be a home a way from home, ceo Richard Lutz said on Wednesday.Read more
Renfe will be running additional high-speed trains between Barcelona and Madrid as of Tuesday. That means there will be one train every 30 minutes between the two cities at peak hours.Read more
Vossloh will be supplying rail fastening systems for a planned high-speed railway line in northern Egypt. The contract award announced on Monday is valued at more than 40 million euros. First deliveries are planned for...Read more
The Tohoku Sinkansen service, which connects the Japanese region of the same name to Tokyo, is back to normal as of Friday, East Japan Railway (JR East) says on its website.Read more
