From December 2024, the first journeys with hydrogen trains in the German state of Brandburg should take place. The state is funding 25 million euros for the project, which involves acquiring six hydrogen trains, and...Read more
ANALYSIS – The climate targets set for each country require us to rethink our mobility to make it greener. This has raised a fundamental question concerning the many diesel trains that still run in Europe...Read more
Renfe is replacing the tender for 72 Medium Distance and Cercanías commuter trains. The company will refrain from buying hybrid diesel-electric trains, and will prioritise technologies such as hydrogen for trains that run on non-electrified...Read more
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will fund 25 million euros for the purchase of four hydrogen trains and the construction of a hydrogen filling station in Groningen in the Netherlands. The amount is part of...Read more
One of the challenges for the further development and adoption of hydrogen trains are the creation of a hydrogen ecosystem and multi-modal fueling stations. That says Muslum Yakisan, President of Alstom for Germany, Austria and...Read more
In roughly a year from now, the new Dutch private rail operator European Sleeper wants to run its first night train from Prague to Brussels. Co-founder Elmer van Buuren: “The time is right for the...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
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
Using materials that last a long time and executing the right maintenance measure at the right time are crucial for a maximum lifecycle of the rail infrastructure. According to Matthias Landgraf, researcher at the Graz...Read more
HS1 Ltd, the owner and operator of the UK’s only high-speed railway, is part of a project that develops augmented reality technology that will virtually replicate rail assets on the High Speed One line by...Read more
The European Commission aims to double high-speed rail traffic within ten years and to triple it by 2050. Rail freight traffic must also have doubled by that time. This is stated in the new ‘Sustainable...Read more
UNIFE, the association of Europe’s rail supply companies, has expressed its disappointment towards the European policymakers about what it calls: the exclusion of the European mobility network and their contribution towards the EU Green deal....Read more
As Western European countries advance in rail infrastructure, digitalization and innovation; Central and Eastern countries have been falling behind. This has led to creating a gap in Europe’s Rail Infrastructure as a whole. Next year,...Read more
Siemens Mobility has announced that 109 of their Avenio high-floor light rails were ordered by Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn AG and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft. These will provide transport for two million people in Dusseldorf and Duisburg in 2025....Read more
Soft measures are by far the most sustainable approach towards developing railway, said director Europe of SNCF Réseau Paul Mazataud. He was referring to projects in the field of timetabling, traffic management or digitalisation. This...Read more
