FOLLOWING a preview run on September 26, the first of Trenitalia’s next-generation ETR1000 Frecciarossa high-speed trains entered revenue service on September 28. Italian State Railway (FS) CEO, ...

High-speed operators will be able to request paths next year on three new routes opening up to competition in Spain.

SYSTRA has announced the acquisition of Spanish engineering and consulting firm Ardanuy Ingeniería. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Systra says the acquisition will strengthen its ...

$US 414m facility at Cancún will allow first freight services to run on southeastern Mexico’s recently-completed 1554km rail network. MEXICO’s Secretariat of ...

UNITED States Class 1 freight railway CSX has ousted president and CEO, Joe Hinrichs, replacing him with Steve Angel. Angel is described by CSX as an accomplished executive with more than 45 years of ...

INFRASTRUCTURE Portugal (IP) has announced the completion of the major upgrade of the Beira Alta Line, running for 190km from Pampilhosa on the Lisbon - Porto main line to Vilar Formoso on the Spanish ...

Austrian Federal Railways announced on September 29 that it will withdraw overnight services from Paris to Berlin and Vienna on December 15.

RATP CEO Jean Castex has been nominated as the next CEO of French National Railways (SNCF), succeeding Jean-Pierrre Farandou.

The 57.5km exploratory tunnel for the Brenner Base Tunnel, under construction between Austria and Italy, has been holed through.

Belgium's Council of State has rejected appeals from Alstom and Siemens against the selection of CAF to supply up to 600 EMUs to SNCB for €3.4bn.

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GERMAN transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, released a long-awaited report on rail reform on September 22. The 34-page document authored by the Ministry of Transport sets out a 10-point plan that it ...