Great Britain: Passengers flipping out over train to ‘London St Pancake’

By Emma Bowden, Press Association, Independent.ie; March 5, 2019 Commuters were given a sweet treat on Shrove Tuesday as London…

Continue Reading →

Full steam ahead for Austria’s night trains

From The Business Times Transport; March 4, 2019 IT LOOKS like a scene from the halcyon days of the railways:…

Continue Reading →

Germany: FlixTrain to launch Berlin – Cologne services

By Keith Fender, International Railway Journal; February 26, 2019 FLIXTRAIN has revealed to the German media that it is planning…

Continue Reading →

Sweden’s national passenger operator SJ achieves passenger traffic record in 2018

By David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal; February 21, 2019 SWEDEN’s national passenger operator SJ carried a record 31.8 million passengers…

Continue Reading →

Bombardier Sees Rail Project Issues Solved by the End of 2020

By Frederic Tomesco, Bloomberg; February 14, 2019 Bombardier Inc. expects to complete at least three of its most delayed rail…

Continue Reading →

Europe: Dutch extend plans for high-frequency operations

By Quintus Vosman, International Railway Journal; February 7, 2019 TRAINS will connect nine major Dutch cities every 10 minutes by…

Continue Reading →

Bombardier Announces Leadership Changes

A press release from Bombardier; February 7, 2019: MONTRÉAL, Feb. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bombardier today announced the following…

Continue Reading →

More passengers and freight on Polish trains

From Radio Poland; February 5, 2019 Polish trains carried more passengers and cargo last year than in 2017, according to…

Continue Reading →

Siemens deal collapse fuels Alstom-Bombardier tie-up talk, shares rally

By Josephine Mason and Allison Lampert, Reuters; February 6, 2019 LONDON/MONTREAL (Reuters) – The European Commission’s decision to block a…

Continue Reading →

Alstom rallies as investors hope for new deal after Siemens veto

By Josephine Mason, Thyagaraju Adinarayan, Helen Reid and Julien Ponthus, Reuters; February 6, 2019 LONDON (Reuters) – Alstom shares rallied…

Continue Reading →

Ireland: Cork-Dublin Train Passenger Journeys Highest on record in 2018

By Mary Bermingham, TheCork.ie; February 4, 2019 A total of 3.46 million passenger journeys were recorded on the Dublin/Cork rail…

Continue Reading →

Czech Republic’s national railway operator reports highest transport output since 1994

From Global Railway Review; February 4, 2019 České dráhy – the main railway operator in the Czech Republic – has reported that…

Continue Reading →

3D printed components to be tested on passenger trains

From Railway Gazette; February 3, 2019 3D PRINTING: Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains, engineering consultancy ESG Rail and 3D…

Continue Reading →

Analysis – Batteries possibly included: the train engine innovations taking on diesel

By Ross Davies, Railway Technology; January 31, 2019 Are diesel trains really set to become a thing of the past?…

Continue Reading →

Siemens and Alstom offer European Commission more merger concessions

By Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal; January 28, 2019 “Since the first remedy proposal made on December 12 2018 to…

Continue Reading →

German Court of Auditors proposes radical DB reform

GERMANY’s Federal Court of Auditors presented a report to the German parliament on January 17 which calls for the federal…

Continue Reading →

Germany: DMUs delivered for freight line’s passenger launch

From Railway Gazette; January 21, 2019 GERMANY: Local freight railway Bentheimer Eisenbahn has taken delivery of the first two of…

Continue Reading →

German Rail: DB long-distance punctuality well below target in 2018

By Keith Fender, International Railway Journal; January 10, 2019 PUNCTUALITY on German Rail (DB) inter-city services continued to worsen in…

Continue Reading →

Czech Republic open-access passenger operator Leo Express records strong growth in 2018

By David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal; December 27, 2018 CZECH Republic open-access passenger operator Leo Express says it carried more…

Continue Reading →

Dutch passenger train operator NS places €400m passenger car order

From Railway Technology; January 2, 2019 Dutch state-owned railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has placed an order worth nearly €400m…

Continue Reading →

UK: Network Rail to make all train station toilets free

From The Week UK; December 18, 2018 Network Rail will scrap toilet charges at all of its stations across the…

Continue Reading →

Delicacies of the Dining Car

A Book Review By Corby Kummer, The New York Times; November 28, 2018 FOOD ON THE MOVE Dining on the…

Continue Reading →

Wales: Virgin Trains tell passenger there are no Welsh announcements as ‘Welsh speakers can speak English too’

By Jessica Walford, Reporter, Wales Online; November 30, 2018 A train company told a passenger they don’t do announcements in…

Continue Reading →

Unconfirmed report: VIA Rail Canada chooses German firm Siemens – and not Bombardier – for massive train fleet contract

By The Canadian Press, CTV News; November 27, 2018 Free trade agreements with Europe and the United States prevent Via…

Continue Reading →