Belfast’s new station opens and will be Grand when it’s finished
Despite what you may have heard from HS2, the biggest station to be completed in the UK this decade will not be in a west London industrial estate.…
Warming ties: EU releases €38m for key CPK line, but Poland pushing for more
The European Commission has given Poland’s CPK infrastructure megaproject around 38 million euros to draw up the designs for a key part of its future “Y” route, set…
Denmark: Lokaltog signs Stadler deal for FLIRT battery fleet
Danish private rail company Lokaltog A/S, which covers areas of Denmark that Scandinavia’s biggest rail operator DSB doesn’t, has signed a deal with Stadler for 14 battery-powered FLIRT…
VIDEO: Watch HS2 complete a weighty ‘engineering milestone’
A police escort for bridge beams, you say? 565 tonnes of them? All 15 of them lifted and laid in under a week? Watch dramatic drone footage of…
HS2 could become Low Speed Too
Euston, Crewe, and Manchester could all be back on the railway agenda. A U-turn, that most unlikely of railway manoeuvres, is on the tracks, over the future of…
Hungary can’t quite meet €10bn rail plans amid EU fund slump
Hungary is planning to invest the equivalent of 10 billion euros in its rail infrastructure, including track modernisation and renewal of the country’s rolling stock fleet. Where those…
Portadown’s Enterprise temporary terminus is through on Sunday
Ireland’s prestige cross-border rail service, branded as the Enterprise, connects the capital of the Irish Republic, Dublin, with the equally populous capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast. Except, for…
Poland resumes Czechia, Austria services after deadly floods
Several weeks after heavy flooding led to a breakdown in cross-border services in Central Europe, many of the Intercity trains from Poland will resume operations to Czechia and…
TRU: New director for North England rail scheme
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), the UK’s multi-billion pound railway electrification scheme for the north of England, has a new managing director. James Richardson, who has been working…
Norway’s rail budget boost may mean big contracts for 2025
Norway’s government has proposed to set aside 470 million euros for 2025 to upgrade its railway network, nearly 250 million euros more than last year. The budget still…
In pictures: ICE train derails at Amsterdam yard
An ICE train derailed at the Watergraafsmeer yard in Amsterdam this morning. As far as is known, there were no injuries.
SNCB resubmits scaled-back train plan despite objections
SNCB has resubmitted a watered-down version of its train offer for 2025 despite Belgium’s outgoing Mobility Minister rejecting a similar plan last month. Georges Gilkinet responded by saying…
Euston: DfT forces Network Rail to act on overcrowding
As anger grows about safety and the general functioning of London’s Euston station, Network Rail has announced a plan to bolster services at the beleaguered station. The most…
Rail roundup: Siemens’ new UK plant, Rail Baltica’s big tender, Swiss tunnel sees light
Press release averted; it’s your daily rail roundup from RailTech! All eyes are on Yorkshire in the UK’s north, as Siemens officially opened its new rolling stock plant…
Siemens officially UK’s newest train factory
Better known as a fishing port and once a country resort made popular by the railways, Goole has a new reason to engage with the iron horse. Siemens…