Spanish operator Renfe announced the launch its fifth business unit on Wednesday, in a bid to manage and grow its international activities. Renfe Proyectos Internacionales was created following the restructuring of Renfe Operadora.Read more
The new ICE 3neo high-speed rolling stock, which Deutsche Bahn (DB) entered into service in Germany last December, will begin testing in the Netherlands, Dutch Railways (NS) announced late last week. The trains are slated...Read more
The first ICE-L train was on its way to Germany this week, ‘smuggled’ in between a freight train. The Talgo-built rolling stock will undergo performance testing in the coming months in multiple countries and is...Read more
Deutsche Bahn forecasts that an additional 21,000 kilometres of high-speed rail can be built between now and 2050. That is the key finding of a new study presented over the weekend. It would mean tripling...Read more
So synonymous is Spanish operator Renfe’s AVE brand with high-speed services that when a competitor’s train broke down earlier this week, Renfe received the complaints. The Spanish operator has reached out to market and competition...Read more
Speculation about the HS2 project potentially tunnelling under Manchester has ignited a heated debate among authorities and residents alike. If Britain’s high speed railway reaches as far north as Manchester, there’s a proposal that it...Read more
The under-construction Koralm tunnel in Austria welcomed its first passenger train earlier this week as part of a ceremony to mark the completion of track-laying activities through the 33-kilometre-long tunnel. Regular high-speed service will not...Read more
Talgo will deliver the first units of a new batch of 30 Avril high-speed trains in November as per a new deadline agreed upon this week with Renfe. The manufacturer settled on the new date...Read more
Hitachi Rail will manufacture 12 high-speed trains for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, the Japanese company recently announced. The contract carries a value of 124 billion yen, or around 830 million euros. First deliveries...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has ordered a total of 73 new long-distance (ICE) trains. The move represents an investment of some 2 billion euros and marks the second-largest single purchase of trains in the company’s history....Read more
All the stakeholders of the 7-kilometre Florence bypass and the new Belfiore station were out on Monday for the official start of construction . The Florence high-speed loop and station construction is a 2.7-billion-euro project,...Read more
Project organisation Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) has picked its investor variant for the Sieradz-Poznań line, it said on Thursday. The decision marks another step in preparation for the construction of the Y-shaped high-speed line that...Read more
Another Estonian section of the planned Rail Baltica project has been given the green light. The compliance of the environmental impact assessment of the fifth out of a total of eight sections was recently confirmed...Read more
Renfe has seen its traction energy costs fall by more than 30 per cent over the last quarter. This has helped the Spanish operator to contain overall costs and reduce its losses. An increase in...Read more
German regional trains resumed services at the end of Friday morning following a nationwide strike. The strike was called by union EVG earlier this week for the period after midnight until 11:00 in the morning....Read more