Ouigo launched its service between Madrid and Barcelona this Monday, 10 May. A subsidiary of the French SNCF, it is the first new high-speed operator to enter the Spanish market. Ouigo offers 10 daily trips...Read more
SNCF Voyageurs has placed an order with Alstom on behalf of four regions for twelve hybrid hydrogen-electric Régiolis trains from the Coradia Polyvalent line. In total, the order announced on April 8 is worth nearly...Read more
“A merger between Eurostar and Thalys will give the combined company a monopoly position on the railways. As a result, the prices of the train tickets will increase”, says Arriën Kruyt of the European Passengers’...Read more
For the first time in its history, Thalys has to rely on external financing. In addition, due to the financial consequences of the corona crisis, the carrier has decided to postpone the merger with Eurostar....Read more
French State Railways (SNCF) said that its high speed Channel Tunnel rail subsidiary Eurostar needs state aid within the month to get through Covid-19 crisis. SNCF chief executive Jean-Pierre Farandou, said this to the Financial...Read more
Rolling stock leasing company Alpha Trains has delivered eight EURO4001 diesel-electric locomotives to Captrain France, a railway company that is part of SNCF Logistics. The last one of the nine locomotives will follow over the...Read more
UK rail union RMT launched a political campaign and petition called ‘Save Eurostar’. They fear that a political stand off at national government level risks leaving the future of Eurostar under threat. The operator is...Read more
A consortium led by SNCF has taken a crucial step in operating a Prima BB 27000 locomotive at Grade of Automation 2 (GoA2) on the national rail network. The vehicle was running on the French...Read more
“This is a good day for the climate, our customers and the coming together of Europe on rails.” Those were the words of Deutsche Bahn CEO Richard Lutz this Tuesday in an online press conference...Read more
DB, ÖBB, SNCF and SBB are planning to re-introduce and operate new cross-border night train connections in Europe from 2021. These new connections are part of the Trans-Europ Express 2 network that is set to...Read more
Alstom has successfully completed trial tests of a new energy storage system to hybridize the French regional TER trains, which will start at the beginning of 2021. Manufacturing of the pre-series began in September this...Read more
SNCF Réseau has selected three consortia for the development of its next generation signal interlockings. The three consortia are Thales/Engie Solutions/Vossloh, Hitachi Rail STS/Eiffage Énergie Systèmes/Systra and Alstom.Read more
To intensify the ETCS development, The Signalling Company from Belgium decided to apply continuous integration, a well-known practice in programming. This approach will be used in its newly launched testing campaign. It is dedicated to...Read more
Railway undertakings in France will receive a powerful impulse from the government to relaunch their businesses. There will be zero track access charges, which will be active until the end of 2020. In order to...Read more
SNCF Réseau, an infrastructure division of SNCF, will introduce a new digital platform for the construction and modernisation works. The solution was developed by Trimble. With its help, the French rail infrastructure manager will facilitate...Read more
