INNOTRANS: The CityCube Berlin multi-purpose trade fair, conference and event hall is to be used to provide two extra 6 000 m2 exhibition floors for InnoTrans 2014, which will be held at Messe Berlin's ExpoCenter City site on September 23-26 2014.
CityCube Berlin is currently under construction on the site of the former Deutschlandhalle, next door to the south entrance of the exhibition grounds and adjacent to Hall 7.
FRANCE: The liberalisation of the rail market offers new opportunities for SNCF Voyageurs’ rolling stock maintenance and engineering subsidiary Masteris, according to its CEO Remi Peltier, who told Railway Gazette International that ’we want to be present for these opportunities’. SNCF established Masteris in 2009 to ...
One of the key messages of InnoTrans 2024 was that railways need to focus on delivery to justify the scale of investment and maintain the political support the industry is looking for.
EUROPE: A ‘groundbreaking’ concept for high-capacity overnight trains has been unveiled by Škoda Group. Developed by designers in the Austrian arm of the company, the ‘Sleep in Motion’ proposal features a double-deck coach with pairs of single-berth cubicles stacked one above the other on each side of ...
