Six years after a terrible train accident in Morlanwelz (Hainaut) that claimed the lives of two track workers and injured five others, Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel presented…
UK technology company Tended has secured a 1.6 million euro project with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Business Applications for a project on geofencing for rail and track…
Since this week, trains run between Malmö and Lund on a new four-track railway, announced the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket). This significantly increases traffic capacity, and with the upcoming…
The second phase of the 2023 rail milling campaign of Danish railway manager Banedanmark is now in progress. Operations began in Funen, where both sections of the Svendborg…
A tragedy occurred in the night of 30 August, when five railway maintenance workers died after being hit by an empty passing train in Brandizzo, along the Turin-Milan…
Staff in the railway sector, be they ticketing officers, train drivers or track workers, often carry several items with them. This means they have special requirements when it…
After several years of track work on the Norwegian side, Swedish operator SJ will resume the cross-border trains between the capital cities Stockholm and Oslo from December 11.…
UK-based company Tended has received product acceptance for its solution to improve the safety of trackside workers, which was developed and tested with Network Rail.
European labour unions have called upon the European Commission to introduce a maximum temperature for outside work, which would include trackside work. RailTech’s Dutch sister publication SpoorPro spoke…
Track closures in the Netherlands might no longer have to take place at the weekends only, but could in the future include work carried out on weekdays. In…
The safety of people who work on the track continues to be a matter of considerable concern, writes the UK Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in its latest…
Unlike all different transport modes continuing operations during holidays, this is not the case for the railways of Great Britain. The only movement in the railway network during…
There will be severe restrictions on the German part of the Rhine-Alpine corridor for the next three weeks. Two sections will have limited capacity due to construction works,…
Following a nine-day line closure, the Brighton Main Line reopened on Monday after works to tackle delays for Southern and Thameslink passengers. Network Rail engineers rebuilt a crucial…
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…