The last contract for the excavations of the Italian side of the Turin-Lyon railway tunnel between Italy and France has been assigned. With this tender, the company overviewing the project TELT has allotted all the...Read more
The substantial rockfall that occurred between in Savoie, France, on Sunday 27 August is still blocking train traffic between France and Italy in the Fréjus rail tunnel, says the French railway company SNCF in an...Read more
A tragedy occurred in the night of 30 August, when five railway maintenance workers died after being hit by an empty passing train in Brandizzo, along the Turin-Milan railway line in Italy. The victims worked...Read more
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) may extend its existing services to Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. This interest in expanding their portfolio of European destinations stems from the rail network liberalisation that is ongoing in...Read more
Italian state operator Trenitalia has awarded a contract of 70 sleeping coaches, and up to 370 total railway coaches to the manufacturer Škoda, along with Titagarh Firema. The Milan – Palermo – Syracuse line will...Read more
This month, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) performed a first, by running commercial passenger transport with a train powered by pure hydrogenated vegetable oil (Hvo) based biofuel produced by Eni, instead of diesel. This biofuel reduces...Read more
In the first six months of 2023, a total of 14.3 billion euro has been awarded in rail infrastructure contracts by FS Italiane Group. Additional billions are planned through new tenders in the second half...Read more
Škoda Group has secured a contract to deliver 10 trams to the city of Bergamo, Italy. They will be the first trams from the company to feature an anti-collision system, and includes three years of...Read more
The new M4 ‘Blue Line’ in Milan since this Tuesday reaches San Babila station, cutting journey times from Milan city centre to Linate airport from 33 to just 12 minutes. The metro’s autonomous trains and...Read more
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana is targeting the expansion of the Orte-Falconara line in central Italy. To that end, it has launched a tender worth more than 394 million euros for the construction of a section of...Read more
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 – Romagna region this month. At the...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
The Trento bypass, a key piece of infrastructure that will offer access to the Brenner Base Tunnel on the Italian side, has been green lit for construction. Work will begin later this year, Italian infrastructure...Read more
The French side of the project for the Turin-Lyon railway has been under the spotlight for possible significant delays in the construction of access roads to the tunnel from Lyon. In the latest development, 37...Read more
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) formally set in motion the tunnel excavation works for a section of the Napels-Bari high-speed line in Southern Italy on Wednesday. Present at the launch were minister of Infrastructure and Transport...Read more