Last Sunday, the long-awaited ‘Three Country Train’ was incorporated into an international timetable. Travellers can now travel between Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany) and almost…
In 2023, more than 244 million passengers travelled by train in Belgium, marking a 7 per cent increase compared to 2022, reports the Belgian National Railway Company (NMBS/SNCB).…
Six operators are planning to link Amsterdam to Paris via Brussels over the next few years. These involve both high-speed trains and traditional connections. “The market is highly…
Belgium’s Minister of Mobility George Gilkinet and his Luxembourgish counterpart Yuriko Backes met in Brussels for the first official bilateral meeting this week to assess shared railway projects…
Every day, 45,000 Belgians commute to Luxembourg, and the two countries want to double this number by 2040. On October 3, 2023, Luxembourg’s Minister of Mobility François Bausch…
Passenger rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) and Belgian carrier SNCB are doubling the number of Intercity trains between the Netherlands and Brussels. The partners announced plans to double…
The European Commission is starting an infringement procedure against the Netherlands for “failing to correctly apply” EU regulations on public transport, the European body announced on Friday. The…
The Belgian federal government has “very big and positive intentions for trains and tracks”. “We want to make the train the backbone of the mobility of the future”,…
The European Train Control System (ETCS) has been installed on an additional 127 kilometres of Belgian tracks, pushing the share tracks equipped with ETCS well over half. The…
While in Belgium SNCB is scheduled to receive a renewed concession for the next 10 years, the course from the European Commission in Brussels is instead to bring…
The financial damage to rolling stock due to graffiti runs into the millions annually, recent reports from Renfe, ÖBB, Dutch Railways and SNCB-NMBS have revealed.
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have signalled their intention to start a new cross-border rail service between the German city of Aachen and Liège in Belgium in December.…
Belgium is dedicated to finding alternative to the remaining diesel-powered rolling stock in Flanders, federal minister for Mobility Georges Gilkinet said in response to questions by a member…
AllRail, the European interest group for independent passenger rail companies, is threatening to file a complaint against the Belgian government with the European Commission. It warns that the…
Supplier Alstom has won a contract for to equip 120 SNCB locomotives with train control system ETCS level 2. The project to install the system launches in October…