The railway bridge in Vernatts Drain will be demolished and a new, ready-made bridge will be installed to allow the...Bridge replacement on British Spalding-Sleaford line to divert rail freight traffic
A new ro-ro terminal at the Port of Yalova became operative on Wednesday the 3rd of October. The terminal will...New ro-ro freight terminal between Europe and Middle East
Rio Tinto has successfully completed the first fully autonomous rail journey at its iron ore operations in the Pilbara region...First fully autonomous train ride in Australia
Second track to increase capacity on British Felixstowe railway
The British Felixstowe branch railway line in the east of the country will have a second track between Trimley station and Grimston Lane foot crossing. This will allow up to 47 freight trains to run...Read more
Vectron MS-locomotive enters Dutch railway
The Vectron MS-locomotive of Siemens has officially been permitted to operate on the Dutch railway network. The permission was granted by the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate after the completion of a long and extensive...Read more
Ferrovie dello Stato aquires full ownership Trainose
Italian national railway company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has purchased all stakes of the Greek freight and passenger operator Trainose for the amount of 45 million Euros. The agreement was signed during the Greece-Italy Bilateral...Read more
Portugal plans better railway connections to Port of Setubal
The Portuguese Port of Setubal will have its railway connections improved. Studies regarding the project are currently carried out, the Ministry of Development and the Port Authorities of Setubal and Sesimbra recently revealed. The Port...Read more
Lithuanian Railways fined €28m for hindering competition
The European Commission has fined Lithuanian Railways (LG) an amount of nearly 28 million Euros for hindering competition on the rail freight market by removing a rail track connecting Lithuania and Latvia. By doing so,...Read more
EU Court of Auditors: ‘ERTMS roll-out insufficient’
The implementation of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is insufficient and too fragmented, states the European Court of Auditors in a report published on Tuesday. The financial burden and a lack of individual...Read more
Growth forecast Eurasian rail freight 15% per year
Rail freight traffic between Europe and Asia is expected to grow with 14.7 per cent per year over the next decade. Traffic volumes could reach 636,000 TEU in 2027, whereas the total volume in 2016...Read more
Rio Tinto to operate complete autonomous freight trains in 2018
Mining company Rio Tinto will start operating completely autonomous freight trains by the end of 2018. The trains will move between fifteen iron ore mines and four port terminals in the West-Australian province of Pilbaro,...Read more
Karlsruhe-Basel section reopened, industry demands compensation
The disrupted railway line between Karlsruhe and Basel is open for traffic from today, after nearly two months of limited capacity on Europe’s main north-south artery. However, it will take time before services are back to...Read more
New freight service Tilburg-Rzepin
A new freight service was launched between Tilburg in the Netherlands and Rzepin in Poland. The service consists of a joint corridor, partly via rail and partly over road. With the service, road freight traffic...Read more