International train travel is increasingly popular, but booking a ticket is often too complicated. At the digital event RailTech Live, we will discuss the latest in cross-border ticketing, and what needs to happen to make...Read more
In an urgent letter, the European interest group ALLRAIL has sounded the alarm about “extreme tunnel vision” at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure regarding a new private concession to Dutch Railways (NS). In doing so,...Read more
The previous Dutch cabinet spent millions in 2019 in subsidies for Dutch Railways (NS) to do its part in the Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna. It even changed the rules of the concession, which now...Read more
A major IT issue at Dutch Railways (NS) on Sunday left most of the Netherlands without train services throughout the afternoon and early evening. NS was able to resume its services as normal on Monday...Read more
Travellers on the Eurostar from Amsterdam and Rotterdam may not be able to get off at the station Brussels-Midi in the future. This has emerged from the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management requesting...Read more
Train operators from Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Lithuania have announced that refugees from Ukraine can travel for free. Also, a train service by the Czech RegioJet in cooperation with Ukrainian...Read more
Dutch Railways (NS) will modernise all of its 51 double-decker series 4 trains (VIRM4) in the coming years, the company announced this week. The overhaul calls for an investment of 323 million euros.Read more
Rail traffic in the Netherlands and Germany was still severely affected in the weekend by Friday’s storm damage. Dutch Railways and Deutsche Bahn on Saturday report bigger-than-expected damage to the network, which takes longer to...Read more
Dutch railway company NS and infrastructure manager ProRail will halt all railway traffic in the Netherlands from Friday 14.00 onwards due to storm Eunice, the companies announced late on Thursday. Deutsche Bahn (DB), meanwhile, also...Read more
According to Dutch Railways (NS), journey times between Amsterdam and Brussels can be reduced with 40 minutes by skipping many stations, mainly in Belgium, and by deploying the Intercity New Generation (ICNG) train by 2025....Read more
There is a good chance that in the Netherlands, long-distance cross-border train connections that are part of the main rail network concession would also be established in open access. Open access would be a modest...Read more
The first night train from Zürich arrived on Amsterdam Centraal on Sunday morning at 09:59 hours. In the evening the same train departed for the first time from Amsterdam via Basel to Zürich. With this,...Read more
It will not be possible to speed up the train connecting between Amsterdam and Berlin by half an hour from 2024. The journey time will not be reduced until 2026 at the earliest and until...Read more
Abellio will disappear from a large part of the German railway network on 1 February 2022. The five concessions of the ailing rail operator in North Rhine-Westphalia will be terminated prematurely. Abellio, a subsidiary of...Read more
Dutch railway manager ProRail has started a new cooperation project with Dutch Railways NS and others to investigate what the possibilities are when different railway partners share their data with each other. Read more