Green light for first Dutch open-access train services by Arriva
Arriva is allowed to offer three new open-access train services in the Netherlands from 2023, a breakthrough in the country. The trains will run partly at night, once…
Dutch mobility companies go to court to fight against NS monopoly
Regional transporters want to prevent Dutch Railways NS from holding the exclusive right to run trains on the Dutch main railway lines for ten years from 2025. The…
Arriva launches MaaS platform glimble
Arriva launches its first MaaS (Mobility as a Service) solution in Europe, starting off in the Netherlands. With the glimble app, different modes of travelling are combined for…
Arriva wants to compete with NS with night trains in the Netherlands
Arriva has submitted an application in the Netherlands to run two night trains to Amsterdam from 2023, one from Groningen and one from Maastricht. The rail operator wants…
ERTMS for Dutch northern regional lines
The northern railway lines in the Netherlands will be included in the Dutch ERTMS programme. This means that some 270 kilometres of track in the provinces of Groningen…
Shunting on Dutch marshalling yards remains possible without ERTMS
The infrastructure of the ERTMS track section between the Dutch yards Kijfhoek and Roosendaal will be set up in such a way that shunting locomotives on the railway…
UK open-access operators coming back to life
Britain’s non-franchised railway companies were on the verge of extinction for four months. Now the situation has changed for the better. While Hull Trains is just returning on…
Popular routes for digital ticketing in Poland
More and more passengers prefer to travel across Poland by train. At the same time, the digital distribution channels also show a sales increase in train tickets. What…
How railways support medical heroes
The medical staff is on the frontline of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. In these exceptional times, the railway companies are also doing their part to support medics in…
One step forward for ERTMS in Denmark
Denmark is moving further in deploying the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS). The new digitised solution has replaced the old signalling system on the Thy Line in…
British open-access operators in jeopardy because of coronavirus
In a month after introducing the entire Paragon brand new train fleet, the UK’s open-access operator Hull Trains has been forced to temporarily cancel all its connections. This…
How European railways react to coronavirus
While European airlines cancel their flights to Italy and other countries, railway operators try to keep up the work as normal as possible. However, the international train traffic…
Report from a night-time trial on a hydrogen train
On Saturday, 7 March, a Coradia iLint hydrogen-powered train was shown to the press and public in Groningen. Every night until 14 March, ProRail, Arriva, Alstom and Dekra…
Second public-sector train operator in Britain
In less than two years after the InterCity East Coast franchise has been taken over by the UK government, a similar story did happen again on another regional…
Hydrogen train on test tracks in Netherlands
The Coradia iLint hydrogen-powered train has been rolled out on the railway network of the Netherlands. Starting from 27 February, it is performing the overnight test trips on…