The Rhine-Alpine corridor could be considered the backbone of European rail freight. It’s already the most heavily used freight route on the continent, but has nonetheless far from reached its full potential. At one of...Read more
Infrastructure manager RFI will carry out rail upgrades in the region Liguria in North-West Italy for 13.4 billion euros. This should result in an increase of 49 percent of freight trains per day by improving...Read more
A landslide at the Middle Rhine Valley near Kestert in Germany has blocked the underlying railway, with no traffic possible the entire week. On Monday 15 March, 5,000 cubic metres of stones and rubble came...Read more
Swiss railway operator SBB conducted a rescue exercise in the Ceneri Base Tunnel last weekend. The main focus of the “Sare” rescue exercise and emergency drills was to go over the rescue procedures inside and...Read more
Two railway lines that were affected by the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genua have been reopened Thursday 4 October. They were closed for more than seven weeks, leading to a significant decline of...Read more
The visionaries behind the Gotthard Base Tunnel – the world’s longest rail tunnel – which was designed to shift freight to rail on a mass scale have received the 2018 European Railway Award.
Built over 17...Read more
