Passenger rail industry news
Latest news from the passenger railway industry, including intercity, regional and commuter transport.
Rail competition works, says European Commission report
EUROPE: ‘Competition in railways seems to trigger an increase in ridership and brings about significant benefits to society’, according to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility & Transport.
Port Adelaide’s Port Dock station reopens after 43 years
AUSTRALIA: Port Dock station on a spur from the Outer Harbor line in central Port Adelaide has reopened after 43 years.
Paris – Berlin direct train to launch in December
EUROPE: Plans for the launch of a daily direct ICE train service between Paris and Berlin have been presented by SNCF TGV-Intercités CEO Alain Krakovitch and DB Personenverkehr CEO Michael Peterson at InnoTrans.
Production of Chilean DMUs underway in Brazil
CHILE: Representatives of EFE Trenes de Chile have visited the Caxias do Sul factory of Marcopolo Rail in Brazil to see the production of diesel multiple-units the operator has ordered.
No plans for a British rail ‘climate ticket’
UK: Rail Business UK understands that the government has no plans to introduce a subscription-based ticket offering unlimited rail travel, as has been proposed in a report produced for Greenpeace by the Greengauge 21 think tank.
DSB selects Sqills’ S3 Passenger ticketing inventory system
DENMARK: National passenger operator DSB has selected the S3 Passenger platform from Siemens Mobility subsidiary Sqills to replace its legacy inventory management system covering all its main line services.
Hangzhou – Wenzhou high speed line bypasses bottlenecks
Arriva proposes five changes ‘to fix Britain’s railways’
Turkey plans new rail connections to serve industrial areas
Czech narrow gauge railways to get new operators
Hitachi to develop multimodal journey planning and booking system for Wales
Ukraine to order more South Korean trainsets
Cross-border complexity puts brakes on Nightjet expansion
Grand Est cross-border fleet poised to enter service
Incoming Mexican President commits to passenger rail revival
El Insurgente passenger trains reach Mexico City
App trial to help blind and low vision passengers navigate Boston stations
Comment: Contrasting approaches to fixing things
Gotthard Base Tunnel fully reopens after derailment damage is repaired
Rhein-Ruhr fares reform to cut through the ‘tariff jungle’
Vietnam plans rail reform as high speed line plan revived
Bill to take passenger train operations into the public sector makes progress
Station safety campaign draws on behavioural science
Homburg – Zweibrücken railway reopening agreement signed