He calls it the safety railcar: a railcar equipped with a system that automatically detects and extinguishes a fire on a train. The American inventor Rob Glen published a patent with his idea, in response...Read more
Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardia have signed and agreement with rail operator RFI to increase intermodal transport in these northwestern Italian regions on October 17 in Rome. This agreement has committed an investment of 18 billion euros...Read more
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
Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands offers a free online course on Railway Systems Engineering. From all over the world, people interested in the industry can enroll for free to learn about the complexity...Read more
Austria has prepared a 25-kilometer long stretch of railway for the testing of autonomous trains in a realistic environment. The Ministry of Traffic supports the project with 16 million Euros.
The line is situated between...Read more
Implementing Automatic Train Operation (ATO) in the rail freight sector will attract specialists and young talent. That is the expectation of Christian Sagmeister of ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, which currently works on the preparation of the...Read more
A new rail operator can be seen on Dutch railways since last week. Freight operator Railexperts is now licensed to operate its own trains on the national network. The company specialises in the transport of...Read more
The international rail corridor between Karlsruhe and Basel will be fully operational on the 2nd of October. That is five days earlier than expected. Deutsche Bahn and the constructing companies have succeeded in optimising the...Read more
Several railway industry players have expressed concern over proposed route enforcements for rail operators transporting dangerous chemicals within the Netherlands, as it may greatly impact the European rail freight industry. The measures may lead to...Read more
The Dutch Port of Moerdijk will have a second rail terminal, next to its current Shell terminal. Works on the facility started on Monday and are expected to take several months. With two rail terminals,...Read more
The Spanish Association of Car and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC) has criticised the Spanish rail freight sector for its limited capacity to serve the car manufacturing industry. There is a lack of railway connections in most of Spanish ports and the...Read more
Freight transport business in Israel has been affected by temporary infrastructure and upgrading work on its national railways this year. In the first six months, Israel Railways carried 4.6 million tonnes of cargo, which was...Read more
Construction of a new railway connection between the Port of Sevilla and La Negrilla Station in Andalusia will make it possible to transit freight over this distance in twenty minutes. The railway line will be...Read more
The Rail Service Center (RSC) of the port of Rotterdam has issued a submission stop of containers with north-Italian cities Busto Arsizio and Novara as a destination. This is a direct consequence of the disruption...Read more
Since the opening of the railway route connecting the Russian city of Ekaterinburg to the north-eastern Chinese town of Changchun, shipment of small quantities of freight on this route is gaining popularity. This was observed...Read more
The Moroccan government has started the construction of a second track on part of the Casablanca-Marrakesh railway line, after the African Development Bank (AfDB) had granted it a 95.2 million Euros loan in 2016. The...Read more
Renfe Mercancías, the rail freight subsidiary of Spanish National Railway Company Renfe, witnessed a significant improvement of business results in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period last year. The company reported...Read more
The Saudi Railways Company (SAR) has witnessed a boost in the transport of minerals via rail. Especially traffic of phosphate and bauxite mineral proved to be successful. 4.06 million tonnes were moved across the northern...Read more
Deutsche Bahn and the Rastatt tunnel consortium announced that they will need until the 7th of October to repair the damaged railway between Karlsruhe and Basel. Until that time, the route remains closed for all...Read more
A new freight train service between China and Europe started last week, linking the north-western Chinese province of Qinghai with the European part of Russia. The connection is to enhance the competitiveness of local goods...Read more
A new freight train service linking Warsaw with Ganzhou was launched last week. It is one of many new links between Europe and China, but among the first linking eastern China’s Jiangxi Province with the...Read more