Maritime opens Northampton Gateway SRFI on West Coast Main Line
The 17-acre terminal provides direct northbound and southbound access to the West Coast Main Line via the Northampton loop.
The 17-acre terminal provides direct northbound and southbound access to the West Coast Main Line via the Northampton loop.
Germany has submitted planning documents for the Dresden–Prague high-speed railway to parliament, bringing the cross-border project a step closer to approval.
The Australian Government has allocated AUD 659.6m (EUR 402m) for a two-year development phase of the Newcastle–Sydney section of Australia’s High Speed Rail (HSR) programme. The funding covers detailed planning and approvals to prepare the 194 km Line 1 corridor for construction between Newcastle and central Sydney.
Hungary will reopen the full Debrecen–Füzesabony line on 1 March, cutting journey times between Debrecen and Tiszafüred by almost 15 minutes.
At full capacity, the terminal is designed to handle up to 44 trains per day and approximately 395,000 intermodal transport units (ITUs) per year.
Správa železnic (SŽ) has unveiled the first phase of an internal reform programme aimed at reducing bureaucracy, widening access to tenders and delivering annual savings of more than CZK 335 million (€13.4 million).
JUSDA Europe has opened a new logistics branch and distribution centre in Serbia, positioning Zrenjanin as a hub for Southeast European supply chains.
The upgrade, backed by an investment of EUR 10m, increases the terminal area to 42,000 m² and adds two 550 m tracks.
Prolonged frost and heavy snowfall in northern Germany have delayed the reopening of the Hamburg–Berlin railway corridor, forcing DB InfraGO to revise its construction timetable.
The facility is designed to strengthen rail freight links between Ukraine and the European Union.
Polish security services detained a Moldovan national after a handbrake incident on a freight train running between Szczecin and Dorohusk, amid heightened anti-sabotage operations on the rail network.
The incident occurred at the exit of the Stockgalerie near Hohtenn in Switzerland.
Fermerci said the works risk disrupting combined transport flows and supply chains across Europe.
The decision applies to three contracts and follows prolonged disruption of works and safety concerns along the tunnel route.
Suspected sabotage incidents disrupted rail traffic around Bologna, one of Italy’s key rail hubs, causing major delays across high-speed, intercity and regional services. Authorities linked the events to coordinated infrastructure damage on the first full day of the Winter Olympic Games.
DB InfraGO has launched two major corridor renewal programmes in western and southern Germany, covering routes between Hagen–Cologne and Nuremberg–Regensburg. The works are part of Germany’s wider strategy to stabilise heavily used passenger and freight corridors.
Apart from the tragic Adamuz accident, Spain is tackling separate infrastructure failures heavily impacting both freight and commuter traffic in Catalonia.
HS2 has begun tunnelling towards central London as the first tunnel boring machine started work on the 4.5-mile Euston Tunnel from Old Oak Common. The tunnel is the final deep-bore section on the high-speed route between London and Birmingham.
Czechia plans to invest a record €2.9 billion in its rail network this year, targeting maintenance, electrification and major capacity projects. The funding is aimed at improving daily operations and accelerating key corridor upgrades.
Rail traffic has resumed on one of Austria’s busiest rail sections after ÖBB completed the replacement of the Rauchmühl Bridge near Innsbruck. Around 270 trains per day are returning to the route between Hall in Tirol and Innsbruck main station.