A joint venture of Alstom and Avax will undertake the modernisation of the Thessaloniki-Idomeni railway line in northern Greece. The project worth 41 million euros includes signalling, electrification…
The continuous rise in the price of raw materials is affecting several rail construction projects, says president of Adif María Luisa Domínguez. Among these are the Madrid –…
The Paris – Lille high-speed line will be renewed with recycled ballast, starting in 2022. A new center for the reuse of railway materials has been set up…
Unipart Rail and McCulloch Group have launched the first prototype of a battery-powered rail handling machine. The TRT-e is a zero emission version of the Trac Rail Transposer,…
Are synthetic sleepers a viable alternative to wooden ones? To find this out, Adif will place them on parts of the Spanish network as a test. In the…
SNCF Réseau is investing more than 300 million euros in the line Paris – Lyon on approximately 160 kilometres of track. It is the most widely used high-speed…
Ironically, more downpours delay the repair of some railways in Belgium, which are already damaged by flooding. Because the important freight corridor from the North Sea to the…
Railways in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands suffered large damages after the flooding. In Germany, a total of 600 kilometres of track are affected, and 80 stations damaged.…
Ukrainian Railways has completed the reconstruction of the track between Vilcha and Yaniv stations, which connects the Chernobyl exclusion zone with the main railway network. It connects to…
Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Network…
Belgium’s rail infrastructure manager Infrabel is renewing the western ring track around Brussels in twelve days. Railheads along a 20 kilometre route will be replaced as well as…
ProRail temporarily prohibits the use of stones for track ballast from three certified European quarries. Rocks from these quarries contained too much quartz dust, which is harmful when…
Banedanmark will renew the tracks of Denmark’s busiest long-distance line between Copenhagen and Høje Taastrup. The infrastructure manager will replace worn tracks and make the line future-proof. The…
After various tests, Infrabel has installed the first “green” sleepers made of concrete based on sulfur. They are the first infrastructure manager in Europe to start using these…
GB Railfreight (GBRf) is about to step up to the front line of weed control around the UK network. In collaboration with Bayer Environmental Science, Network Rail and…