Freight Rail

North Wales opens new rail freight route. Each train removes approximately 76 lorries from the roads.

Welsh slate aggregate is being transported to Luton via rail freight for the first time, thanks to a joint initiative between Network Rail, construction materials company Breedon, and the Welsh Government.

August 29, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

DB Cargo Italia strengthens its infrastructure

The Italian carrier is relying on the new state-of-the-art Lesegno freight station.

August 29, 2022 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

World's first 100% hydrogen-operated route in Germany

Alstom company starts passenger service on this route with 14 Coradia iLint trains in Bremervörde, Lower Saxony, Germany.

August 26, 2022 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

Mattoni's freight trains has replaced 20 000 full loaded truck for the last 10 years

On August 28, 2012, the first train with local mineral water left the main bottling plant of Mattoni mineral water company along the restored siding to the nearest railway station.

August 25, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

German emergency measures: coal freight trains have absolute priority

The resolution was adopted by the government because of the low water level on the Rhine. The river carries coal to power stations.

August 25, 2022 · 2 min read

Rolling Stock

Metra to create battery-powered locomotives for Progress Rail

The Metra Board of Directors approved a first-of-its-kind plan to convert up to six of Metra’s oldest diesel locomotives to zero-emission battery power.

August 24, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

Alstom, DB Cargo Belgium and DB Cargo Netherlands sign a maintenance contract for 60 locomotives

The contract is to provide full-service maintenance for the fleet of 60 DE-6400 locomotives operating in Belgium and the Netherlands.

August 24, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

ThPA S.A. expands intermodal operations to Niš, Serbia

ThPA S.A. launched a new regular service with block trains between Thessaloniki and Niš, Serbia.

August 23, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

Inspection of railway sleepers in Germany ends: first results speak of manufacturer's fault

Damage to DB is expected in the amount of hundreds of million euros.

August 23, 2022 · 3 min read

Rolling Stock

Alstom has received an additional order for 15 new-generation Avelia Horizon very high-speed trains from SNCF Voyageurs

The trains ordered are the new generation 4-voltage high-speed trains worth almost 590 million euros.

August 22, 2022 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

ScottishPower explores green hydrogen at Port of Felixstowe to help decarbonize the UK’s busiest port.

100MW facility could deliver up to 40 tonnes of green hydrogen per day - enough to power 1300 hydrogen trucks. International export is also being explored.

August 19, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Saudi Arabia has signed memorandum of understanding with Alstom

MoU wants to mainly find investment opportunities in the transport sector.

August 18, 2022 · 1 min read

Business

ČD Cargo transported another metro set to Warszaw

On Sunday 14 August 2022, another six-car metro train left the gates of the ŠKODA plant in Plzeň and traveled with ČD Cargo via Prague, Havlíčkův Brod, Brno, Přerov, and Bohumín to the Polish capital.

August 18, 2022 · 1 min read

Business

Hupac presented a preview of its new Terminal Brwinów in Poland

The project is to be finished within a few more weeks.

August 17, 2022 · 1 min read

Business

Court of Frankfurt/M. has dismissed the action for damages brought by DB against Czech steel producer Moravia Steel

Frankfurt's regional court made this decision on the grounds that it is time-barred.

August 17, 2022 · 3 min read

Technology & Innovation

Wabtec Corporation has opened its first Transit Performance Optimization Center (TPOC) for Europe

The new center, located in Derby UK uses real-time monitoring and analytics.

August 16, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

The Swiss InterRail Group opened an independent operating company in Turkey.

The company's managing director was appointed Enver Eser.

August 16, 2022 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

Hopelessness on Czech railways

Thousands of travelers are often affected by up to ten hours of delay. Heads will roll within Správa železnic, the state provider of the national and regional railway infrastructure.

August 15, 2022 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

Faster rail transport between the Czech Republic and Poland

The new product is operated by EP Cargo company.

August 12, 2022 · 1 min read

Business

ShipMonk's first logistics center in continental Europe is built in the Czech Republic.

ShipMonk, an American-Czech company, focuses on outsourcing logistics for American e-shops for which it stores and ships their goods. Cheb town is suitable, among other things, for the European rail corridor from Prague to Nuremberg passes through the town. In addition, the railway connection with the border areas of Germany and the Czech Republic is provided by a local line.

August 11, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

New CEO of Ciech Cargo, the carrier of the Ciech chemical group

Andrzej Pawłowski has been appointed since the beginnig of August.

August 10, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

Czechia: reconstructions of railway lines are delayed and also more expensive. Costs of priority projects have increased by 95%

The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) focused on how the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Railway Administration (Správa železnic - SŽ) allocated state and EU funds for the reconstruction of selected non-corridor railway lines from 2016 to mid-2021.

August 10, 2022 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

Estonian locomotive is allowed to operate on the Finnish railway

After nearly a year of test drives, the Finnish Transport and Communication Agency Traficom granted permission for the first C30-MF locomotive constructed in Operail’s depot in Tapa, Estonia, to operate on the Finnish public railway.

August 9, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Maersk to acquire Danish company Martin Bencher Group to strengthen the handling of project logistics

Maersk has reached an agreement to acquire Martin Bencher Group, a Denmark-based project logistics company with capabilities within non-containerized project logistics. Simultaneously Maersk announced to deliver record revenue, more than 50 percent.

August 9, 2022 · 3 min read

Freight Rail

Digitalisation is necessary for effective railway traffic

EU presidency Transport Minister Martin Kupka: digitalisation is a way to make significant savings in terms of the efficiency of transport connections. Another topic of the EU presidency is the further development of the TEN-T network – key routes across Europe, both on rail and in other modes of transport.

August 8, 2022 · 5 min read

Rolling Stock

Germany: train crashed into stationary freight wagons

At the Herne container terminal in North Rhine-Westphalia, a train collided with several stationary freight wagons. The driver was nearly crushed by the wagons but he jumped off in time.

August 5, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

New research regarding LiDAR technology allows train driver to see environment behind train and detect objects on tracks.

The research of FH Aachen aims to develop a train shunting assistance system based on an advanced sensor set including Blickfeld LiDAR technology.

August 5, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

DB Netz AG has appointed a new Chairman of the Management Board

The 40-year-old Philipp Nagl will take over as Chairman of the Management Board of DB Netz AG from the half of August 2022.

August 4, 2022 · 2 min read

Freight Rail

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group: new TransFER connections between Central Europe and Turkey

The company has announced that they establish three new lines and one updating trip.

August 4, 2022 · 2 min read

Rolling Stock

Tortoise on rail: giant turtle stopped train transport on track in southeast England

The animal, which photo shows being injured on the shell, escaped from a pet shop.

August 3, 2022 · 1 min read

Business

Dark Bahntower: DB is getting to join German cities in saving energy and turning off headquarters evening illumination

Employees get an energy bonus of up to 150 euros if they manage to save energy at their workplaces as well and the campaign is successful.

August 3, 2022 · 2 min read

Rolling Stock

Shunting locomotive for tough weather conditions even beyond the Arctic Circle

Three TEM18DM diesel locomotives manufactured by the Bryansk Engineering Plant (BMZ, part of Transmashholding) have joined the locomotive fleet of Karelsky Okatysh JSC (a subsidiary of Severstal PJSC) in 2022

August 2, 2022 · 2 min read

Rolling Stock

Siemens Mobility supplies 10 Vectron locomotives to ČD Cargo

The Czech largest rail freight carrier ČD Cargo and Siemens Mobility Czech Republic signed a contract in mid-July for the purchase of ten interoperable multi-system Siemens Vectron MS electric locomotives (variant A54).

August 2, 2022 · 2 min read

Passenger Rail

Hybrid between train and air has been presented in Toronto

TransPod unveils the FluxJet, a vehicle for ultra-high-speed transportation of passengers and cargo at over 1,000km/h.

August 1, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

DB: "We are back in the black"

For the whole year 2022, DB expects an operating profit of more than one billion euros.

August 1, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

215 million euros due to covid for Deutsche Bahn from the German government is justified, EC decided

The European Commission approves state aid in German to compensate Deutsche Bahn for damages suffered by its subsidiaries because of the coronavirus pandemic.

July 29, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

New intermodal connection between Tilbury2 and Manchester means 20.000 fewer lorries annually

Maritime Transport introduces rail service in partnership with P&O Ferries, connecting TILBURY2 with the newly-refurbished Trafford Park Euroterminal in Manchester.

July 28, 2022 · 2 min read

Business

The European Commission removes Russia and Belarus from the TEN-T maps

On the contrary, the proposal extends four European Transport Corridors to Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova.

July 28, 2022 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

Historical breakthrough on London to Birmingham route

Dorothy, HS2’s whopping 2000-tonne custom-made tunnel boring machine (TBM), made the very first tunneling breakthrough on Europe’s largest infrastructure project.

July 27, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Despite the covid and other world issues, Operail, the Estonian state freight rail company had the best results in its history

The international rail company AS Operail closed the year 2021 successfully: the group’s revenue increased to 73 million euros, which is a 12 percent increase compared to the previous year. Thanks to added freight volumes and improved work efficiency, the group’s EBITDA increased to 17.2 million euros, which is an impressive 16 percent increase compared to the previous year.

July 26, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Port of Rotterdam: total throughput slightly higher (almost 1%), declining trade with Russia notwithstanding

A week after Antwerp-Bruges, RAILMARKET.com brings figures from another important European port. There are a lot of changes caused by the war in Ukraine in this port's throughput as well.

July 26, 2022 · 7 min read

Technology & Innovation

The new AVE Madrid - Burgos line is equipped with ERTMS/ETCS technology supplied by Alstom

This signalling project is part of the contract awarded in 2015 to a consortium led by Alstom to build and maintain, for over 20 years, the latest-generation signalling and telecommunications systems on the Valladolid-León and Venta de Baños-Burgos high-speed line.

July 25, 2022 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

Huge amounts of carbon dioxide could be captured by trains

New research shows rail systems around the world could be harnessed to help mitigate climate change and clean our air of CO2 by capturing the sustainable energy generated when trains brake and decelerate.

July 25, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

More than €110 million for the modernisation of a railway corridor in western Bulgaria

The European Commission has approved this investment from the Cohesion Fund for the first phase of a project modernizing a railway corridor in Western Bulgaria, part of a bigger TEN-T network between Sofia and the Serbian border.

July 22, 2022 · 2 min read

Technology & Innovation

Record-breaking heatwaves in the United Kingdom forced Network Rail to establish "resilience" task force

Network Rail launches a new task force led by independent experts to investigate and make recommendations on how the railway can develop its approach to resilience during hot weather following this week’s unprecedented heatwave.

July 21, 2022 · 4 min read

Rolling Stock

At least seven vehicles featuring sustainable drive solutions will be presented by Stadler at InnoTrans 2022.

All seven models will be revealed to the specialist and general public for the first time.

July 20, 2022 · 7 min read

Freight Rail

Olaf Krüger: The single wagon system of the state railways is not competitive; the rail freight sector must develop a new product for single loads

Co-founder of the INTERNATIONAL RAIL FREIGHT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (IBS) e.V. and his views on the current challenges in rail transport.

July 19, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Better use of railways: one of the priorities of transport minister Martin Kupka within the Czech EU presidency

Revision of the TEN-T regulation, promotion of high-speed railways across Europe, and strengthening of the role of the European Union in space. This was what the transport minister Martin Kupka spoke about to the MEPs.

July 19, 2022 · 4 min read

Business

Port of Antwerp-Bruges announces slight growth in the first half of year but not in container segment

The total throughput of Port of Antwerp-Bruges was 147.2 million tonnes in the first six months of this year, an increase of 1.4% compared to the same period last year.

July 18, 2022 · 3 min read

Business

Due to climate change, IKEA moves more goods from roads to rail, short sea, and barge

By 2030 IKEA wants to reduce carbon emissions from every transport by an average of 70 percent for its land and ocean transportation.

July 18, 2022 · 3 min read