Europe rail industry news
Latest railway industry news from Europe, including operations, infrastructure, rolling stock and policy.
Trams return to Reșița after 13 years
ROMANIA: Tram services restarted in Reșița on December 20 after a hiatus of more than 13-years. The city’s sole route links Kaufland in the north to Reșița-Montana in the southeast, a distance of 9 km.
MÁV group to take on GySEV staff and rolling stock as Hungarian restructuring advances
HUNGARY: Minister of Construction & Transport János Lázár announced a series of structural changes and improvements to railway services in Hungary at a press conference held in Budapest on January 8.
Rolling stock owners call for action on rail’s ‘patchwork of increasingly expensive technologies’
EUROPE: The Association of European Rail Rolling stock Lessors has called for the more co-ordinated deployment of ERTMS, changes to subsidy policies and measures to ensure life-time support of vehicles. It says these measures are needed to avoid disrupting procurement and to avoid rail pricing itself out of the freight market.
Refurbished Stuttgart S-Bahn trains ready to return to service
GERMANY: The first three Stuttgart S-Bahn electric multiple-units to be refurbished have been unveiled by operator DB Regio and transport authority VRS ahead of their return to passenger service in February.
Rebuilt section of future Skopje – Sofia railway inaugurated
NORTH MACEDONIA: Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has inaugurated the first section of a future rail route between Skopje and Sofia which is being developed as part of pan-European Corridor VIII to link the Adriatic and the Black seas.
New Year bug halts Spanish high speed train fleet
SPAIN: Drivers entering the cabs of RENFE’s Series 106 Avril high speed trainsets on January 1 discovered the entire fleet could not be activated.
Lille orders more metro trains
Resignalling programme to create Madrid’s first driverless metro line
Titagarh Firema unveils EMUs for the Lazio region
Funding finalised for first phase of Côte d’Azur railway enhancement programme
Helsinki takes light rail northeast
Indian industrial group acquires Danish train toilet maker
Data-Driven Infrastructure: Intelligent bolts monitor bridge behaviour
Wagons ordered under SBB Cargo fleet standardisation strategy
Signalling: Low-cost ETCS to support regional roll-out
Chemins de Fer du Jura interlocking contract awarded
Waberer’s acquires majority stake in GySEV Cargo
Interview: It is time to embrace open source software
‘Co-operation between historic operators’ sees Ouigo low-cost trains reach Brussels
Minsk trams delivered
Regional Railways: A reversal of fortunes in Catalunya
High speed bypass line contract awarded
RER NG trains launched on Line D as Paris fleet renewal accelerates
Regional Railways: Technology offers hope of secondary line revival