Renfe has hired 851 new employees for its customer service division, who will be active on Renfe stations and at its call centre. The move comes in the wake of the announcement of free train...Read more
Spain’s free train ticket campaign kicked off earlier on Wednesday, with registered Renfe users being able to obtain free passes for the Cercanías, Rodalies de Catalunya and Media Distancia routes online. The company has welcomed...Read more
Major German tourism business TUI on Tuesday announced the introduction of the TUI Ski Express in cooperation with GreenCityTrip. From December 23 onwards, new night train services will depart to Austrian ski resorts in Tirol...Read more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lauded the country’s 9-euro ticket for public transport, labelling it as “one of the best ideas of late”. Based on its success, Scholz now wants to look into a simplified...Read more
Partner contentIf a train approaches that it is pristine condition, it can mean a few things: it is brand new or it has been washed. However, it can also mean that a protective film has been...Read more
A series of planned strikes on the British rail network make this a very long weekend indeed. Thursday, Friday and Saturday may not be good days to move people or produce around Great Britain, so...Read more
Partner contentvoestalpine Signaling is gearing up for the market launch of its MDS Visual Train Analysis (VTA) system. While the company is the worldwide frontrunner in terms of the number of wayside monitoring systems it includes...Read more
Renfe registered more than 81,000 new users on Tuesday, the first day of registration for the free train passes that will become available later this month for use from September onwards.Read more
Alstom has ended the first quarter of financial year 2022/2023 with a 13-percent drop in orders received. Sales on the other hand, were up 5 percent over the same period last year.Read more
Trains have long been associated with tourism and discovering a new country or travelling Europe. However, in the past decades mass tourism seems to have deserted one of the oldest modes of transport still in...Read more
During the Spanish equivalent of the US State of the Union address, president Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday announced discounts of up to 100 percent for certain Renfe services in the coming period.Read more
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) and the Venice prefecture signed the protocol for the construction of a new railway line to Venice Marco Polo airport this week. In the same announcement, RFI put the overall investment...Read more
The announcement that the East Coast Main Line (ECML) will benefit from a significant digital upgrading has caught the imagination of the rail industry at large. There is a genuine belief that the twenty-first-century signalling...Read more
The German government is considering the introduction of a climate ticket for trains, which would enable travellers to take regional trains at a reduced price. The plan follows on the success of the so-called 9-euro...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has sold 10 million so-called 9-euro tickets in the first month of sales. The temporary flat-fee public transport ticket has also helped in restoring passenger numbers on DB Regio trains.Read more