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    Sponsored

    Digital technology redefines safety for low-cost railways

    2019-05-03T08:58:00Z

    SPONSORED CONTENT: ‘What we want to see is smart trains, but dumb track’, insists Derel Wust, Managing Director of Australian train control software specialist 4Tel. In most of the railway business, ‘we have smart track and dumb trains’, but he suggests that this is an ‘exceptionally expensive’ ...

  • YRP’s 10th annual black tie dinner took place in London on April 11.
    Rail Business UK

    YRP celebrates 10 years of success

    2019-04-24T07:33:00Z

    Professional networking and educational group Young Rail Professionals has developed an important role in a fragmented UK rail sector. Nick Kingsley asks co-founder Paul Cooper and former Chair Sabrina Ihaddaden to reflect on the organisation’s achievements in its first decade.

  • Fabrication of power cars for the RENFE Avril trainsets is getting underway at Talgo's Las Matas plant.
    Rail Business UK

    Talgo committed to UK expansion strategy

    2019-04-03T08:15:00Z

    UK: Planning for the development of a rolling stock manufacturing plant in Scotland and a research facility in northern England is continuing ‘at full pace’, Talgo Group President Carlos de Palacio Oriol told Railway Gazette in Madrid on April 1. Pointing out that Talgo’s two Spanish plants at Las Matas ...

  • SNCF's expansion of low-cost Ouigo services to replace existing TGVs has reduced the range of connections available across the French inter-city network. (Photo: Christophe Masse)
    News

    Protectionism dilutes the competitive dynamic

    2019-03-06T09:08:39Z

    COMMENT: Are incumbent state operators expanding their low-cost high speed offer to try and keep new entrants out of a liberalised inter-city market, and how might this fit with European competition policy, asks Railway Gazette Managing Editor Nick Kingsley.

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    Rail Business UK

    Policymakers back HS2 as contractors challenge costs

    2019-02-28T14:14:41Z

    UK: Representatives of the High Speed Rail Industry Leaders group joined national and regional politicians in Birmingham on February 25 to unveil a giant jigsaw of Britain, writes Tony Miles. This was intended to highlight the regional connectivity benefits of High Speed 2, with the ‘missing piece’ in the jigsaw, ...

  • A former British Airways Chief Executive, Keith Williams gave the annual George Bradshaw Address in London on February 26.
    Rail Business UK

    Put customers first, Williams tells UK rail sector

    2019-02-27T10:26:05Z

    UK: The rail industry needs ‘to adapt to a fast changing world’, and ensure that it focuses on the needs of passenger and freight customers, according to former British Airways Chief Executive Keith Williams, who was last year commissioned by Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling to undertake a ...

  • A DART EMU calls at Dublin's Pearse station, where the life-expired overall roof is due to be replaced by 2020. (Photo: Tony Miles)
    News

    Irish implementation plan focuses six-year rail spend

    2019-02-15T11:50:00Z

    Substantial investment in heavy and light rail is envisaged under the National Transport Authority’s Draft Integrated Implementation Plan for 2019-24. Tony Miles investigates

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    News

    Export drive expected as Chinese market loses momentum

    2019-01-11T12:10:28Z

    CHINA: While the demand for railway technology is expected to continue at a high level for the next five years, the Chinese market has lost momentum and is not expected to grow, according to a new study by German consultants SCI Verkehr. This may put pressure on Chinese suppliers to ...

  • HS2 Ltd says that contracts are to be let shortly for construction of Old Oak Common station in west London and expansion of London Euston to handle HS2 services.
    News

    ‘Broad coalition’ needed to deliver HS2

    2018-11-21T10:58:14Z

    UK: ‘It will take a broad coalition involving us, the supply chain and local and national government to deliver this project’, Mark Thurston, Chief Executive of government high speed rail project delivery company HS2 Ltd told the All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group on November 20. He was updating parliamentarians on progress ...

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    Editorial Comment

    20 years to save the planet

    2018-11-01T08:00:00Z

    ‘Rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ are needed if global warming is to be limited to 1·5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to an assessment by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Presented in Incheon on October 8, the Special Report on ...

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    News

    Driving innovation in rail freight

    2018-10-26T10:56:41Z

    EUROPE: ‘We need a quantum leap’, suggested DG Move’s Director of Land Transport Elisabeth Werner, speaking at a workshop in Brussels on October 25 to launch the European Rail Industry Freight Agenda. Emphasising that rail freight had a key role to play in the decarbonisation of European transport, Werner warned ...

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    News

    PRASA on the brink as court defers safety shutdown

    2018-10-12T11:00:00Z

    SOUTH AFRICA: The future of the 2 300 route-km network operated by Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa is in grave doubt amid a spiralling safety crisis that has seen the national rail regulator request suspension of the operator’s licence. The Rail Safety Regulator suspended PRASA’s right to operate on ...

  • FlixMobility aims to become a multimodal provider of sustainable transport, CEO & Co-Founder André Schwämmlein tells Railway Gazette International
    News

    FlixTrain: ‘We want to make sustainable mobility accessible to everyone’

    2018-10-03T09:07:00Z

    Having grown from a tech startup to an international coach company in just five years, FlixMobility has now entered the rail market. The e-commerce platform seeks to become a multimodal provider of sustainable transport, CEO & Co-Founder André Schwämmlein tells Railway Gazette International

  • The French government is to prioritise investment at key rail hubs outside Paris. It has also recommitted to the planned new line between Lyon and Torino.
    News

    Urban hubs prioritised in French infrastructure programme

    2018-09-12T12:42:37Z

    FRANCE: On September 11 Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne outlined her ministry’s infrastructure spending priorities for the decade to 2028. In the rail sector, spending is to be focused on the ‘everyday needs of users’ in keeping with the priorities set out in mid-2017 by President Emmanuel Macron. Offering a ‘clear, ...

  • A 57 km base tunnel is at the heart of the planned new line between Lyon and Torino.
    News

    Alpine impasse as political infighting threatens Lyon – Torino base tunnel

    2018-08-08T10:38:58Z

    ANALYSIS: Conte says no, but Salvini says yes. This sums up the Italian media’s view of the conflict at the heart of the new ‘yellow and green’ government in Roma over the future of the Lyon – Torino trans-Alpine railway, writes Christian Scasso. A coalition of the radical Five Star ...

  • The auditors are particularly critical of the average speeds achieved on parts of the Spanish high speed network.
    News

    EU audit condemns ‘ineffective patchwork’ of high speed lines

    2018-06-27T10:20:29Z

    EUROPE: A lack of cross-border co-ordination between member states has reduced the effectiveness of European Union investment in high speed rail, according to a report published by the European Court of Auditors on June 26. Suggesting that ‘there is no European high speed rail network’, the report concludes that there ...

  • An SNCF diesel trainset stands at Le Tréport in March. Photo: Jean-Paul Masse
    News

    Last train to Le Tréport

    2018-06-11T12:41:38Z

    The cessation of passenger trains over the branch from Abbeville to Le Tréport has reignited debate over the future of France’s secondary lines within the ongoing railway reform programme. Jean-Paul Masse reports.

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    Rail Business UK

    Going ETCS-ready

    2018-05-28T15:17:00Z

    UK: Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling says he wants ‘all signal renewals and upgrades – from next year – to be digital, or at least digital-ready’, in order to make the best use of the available funding. Speaking an event in York on May 10 to launch the ...

  • Ankara hosted the 10th World Congress on High Speed Rail. The next Congress is expected to take place in 2019-20 in China.
    News

    Competition is key as high speed rail keeps growing

    2018-05-15T15:29:00Z

    Global ridership has surged by 40% in the three years since UIC last staged its World Congress on High Speed Rail. Yet operators and policymakers must work hard to keep the rail mode ahead as competition grows both in and for the market. Benjámin Zelki reports from the latest summit ...

  • The Hudson Tunnels are used by both Amtrak long-distance and New Jersey Transit commuter trains. Amtrak is the infrastructure owner for this section of the Northeast Corridor.
    News

    Hopes rise on Gateway tunnel funding despite Trump opposition

    2018-03-23T15:46:39Z

    USA: Hopes of progress in the Gateway Programme to build new tunnels between New York and New Jersey were raised on March 22 when $650m of federal funding was directed to Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. The Gateway Programme covers a series of enhancements worth approximately $30bn to the busiest section ...