Rise in price of raw materials affects Spanish rail projects
The continuous rise in the price of raw materials is affecting several rail construction projects, says president of Adif María Luisa Domínguez. Among these are the Madrid – Extremadura high-speed line and the Mediterranean corridor...Read more
SNCF Réseau launches center for reuse of railway materials
The Paris – Lille high-speed line will be renewed with recycled ballast, starting in 2022. A new center for the reuse of railway materials has been set up by infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau and six...Read more
UK companies developed battery-powered rail handling machine
Unipart Rail and McCulloch Group have launched the first prototype of a battery-powered rail handling machine. The TRT-e is a zero emission version of the Trac Rail Transposer, which can remove and install all profiles...Read more
Adif tests recycled plastic sleepers
Are synthetic sleepers a viable alternative to wooden ones? To find this out, Adif will place them on parts of the Spanish network as a test. In the coming months, the first hundred of them...Read more
Paris – Lyon high-speed line gets renovated
SNCF Réseau is investing more than 300 million euros in the line Paris – Lyon on approximately 160 kilometres of track. It is the most widely used high-speed line in Europe with a third of...Read more
More lines in Belgium reopen, but new rain causes delay
Ironically, more downpours delay the repair of some railways in Belgium, which are already damaged by flooding. Because the important freight corridor from the North Sea to the Mediterranean is still paralysed, Infrabel is examining...Read more
After the flood: European rail repairs will cost billions
Railways in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands suffered large damages after the flooding. In Germany, a total of 600 kilometres of track are affected, and 80 stations damaged. Seven regional transport routes have been so...Read more
Chernobyl connected again to the Ukrainian rail network
Ukrainian Railways has completed the reconstruction of the track between Vilcha and Yaniv stations, which connects the Chernobyl exclusion zone with the main railway network. It connects to a storage facility of spent nuclear fuel...Read more
Recycled plastic railway sleepers: a UK first
Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Network Rail’s main line tracks.Read more
Infrabel renews Brussels’ western ring track
Belgium’s rail infrastructure manager Infrabel is renewing the western ring track around Brussels in twelve days. Railheads along a 20 kilometre route will be replaced as well as two of the Belgian capital’s railway bridges....Read moreProRail bans ballast stones from three quarries due to harmful quartz dust
ProRail temporarily prohibits the use of stones for track ballast from three certified European quarries. Rocks from these quarries contained too much quartz dust, which is harmful when inhaled. This has emerged from a study...Read more
Renewal of Denmark’s busiest long-distance track starts this month
Banedanmark will renew the tracks of Denmark’s busiest long-distance line between Copenhagen and Høje Taastrup. The infrastructure manager will replace worn tracks and make the line future-proof. The first phase between Copenhagen and Glostrup will...Read more
First recyclable sulfur concrete sleepers placed in Belgium
After various tests, Infrabel has installed the first “green” sleepers made of concrete based on sulfur. They are the first infrastructure manager in Europe to start using these sleepers on a large scale. The sleepers...Read more