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Since 15 June, the company has operated the full cross-border product in-house between France and Italy.
European passenger rail operators are using different responses to the June 2026 heatwave, ranging from formal “do not travel” advice in Britain to infrastructure monitoring, speed limits, water distribution and passenger guidance in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Hungary.
Intermodal trains carried 7.73m tonnes in the first quarter, while the segment’s share of total rail freight rose to 15%.
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The investment comes as South Africa prepares further changes to rail network access.
The European Commission has opened a EUR 1.1bn transport infrastructure funding call, with railway projects on the core trans-European transport network among the eligible categories. Applications are open until 6 October 2026.
The agreement focuses on infrastructure, sustainability, digitalisation, safety, technological innovation and training.
The trial forms part of the testing and commissioning programme ahead of planned commercial operation of the Class 99 fleet in July.
The Newag-built train is part of a 35-vehicle order worth about EUR 789m gross, with first services planned in the first half of 2027.
The person deceased in the accident was identified by police as a 46-year-old German shunting assistant standing on a designated running board.
The contracts cover the 6th of October–Alexandria corridor and the Belbes–10th of Ramadan line, with a combined value of about EUR 690m.
The railroad said the measure contributed to a wider safety programme that delivered its lowest full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, down 19% year on year.
The annual total was the highest since 1920 and exceeded the pre-pandemic peak of 1.75bn journeys recorded in 2018-19.
Spain’s Council of Ministers has authorised Adif, the Government of Cantabria and Suelo Industrial de Cantabria to sign an agreement for the Llano de La Pasiega intermodal terminal in Piélagos.
The contract covers rail freight movements across Germany, Italy, France and the Benelux region.
Årsta combi terminal is a central intermodal hub for freight flows to and from the Stockholm region.
Spain’s Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility said the operator has invested EUR 520m in 70 trains for medium-distance and commuter services.
The meeting followed talks between DB CEO Evelyn Palla, the three state governments, DB InfraGO and DB Cargo.
The locomotives are scheduled for delivery in 2028 and will increase Alpha Trains’ EURO6000 fleet to 92 locomotives.
Second part of the interview for Railmarket.com with Tanja Kienegger - CEO, Siemens Mobility Austria
The units are planned to enter service from December 2030 under a 30-year operating contract for the Prague Integrated Transport system (PID).
KiwiRail and Stadler will prepare the three locomotives for operation over the next four to six weeks. After this phase, the locomotives will move to the main line for further testing.
The traffic supports the supply of construction materials into London and the south-east of England.
Construction is due to begin in December 2026 and finish by the end of 2029.
The service connects the customer’s plant in Jamnagar with Mundra Port via Morbi.
The train is part of the SNCF Voyageurs framework agreement for up to 860 trainsets.
The locomotive was built at TÜRASAŞ’s Eskişehir site.
The route is Sweden’s only regular train ferry connection and provides a rail link between Sweden and Germany outside the Öresund fixed connection.
Local and regional services will return to the regular timetable, and replacement buses will be withdrawn.
The project doubled the terminal area to around 36,000 m² and increased capacity for containers and semi-trailers.
The train carried more than 3,000 tonnes of ore on 49 wagons.
The new night train will initially run between Brussels, Cologne, Switzerland and Milan. The route will be extended from the December 2026 timetable change with additional stops in Antwerp, Breda and Eindhoven, giving the Netherlands a direct night train connection to Italy.
PKP Cargo wants to position itself as the main rail carrier for aggregate flows linked to the construction of Port Polska, the large airport and rail investment programme between Warsaw and Łódź.
Interview for Railmarket.com with Tanja Kienegger - CEO, Siemens Mobility Austria
The Polish rolling stock leasing company said the first five Traxx MS3 locomotives have already been produced for operation in Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
The Class 847 units are based at depots in Praha-Libeň and Rakovník and now operate more than 10,000 km per day within Prague Integrated Transport (PID).
The train is the first completed vehicle in a EUR 34.6m (£30m) programme covering the EMR Connect fleet.
The test programme covers 20 night sessions and is intended to validate the system’s performance in operational conditions.
The first five-car trains are due to enter service on regional routes at the beginning of 2028.
The change was approved at UNIFE’s 35th General Assembly in Brussels, where members discussed EU regulation, export policy and market fragmentation.
The first Vectron order from Croatia will start being delivered in early 2027.
The Polish manufacturer will supply six train driver simulators and eight railway traffic control simulators by the end of 2026.
One locomotive is undergoing testing at the Velim test circuit before transfer to San Donato, where network trials are planned for November.
Heavy Haul Rail and BNSF Railway have presented commemorative locomotive liveries linked to history.
From June 10th, 2026, every newly made Vectron by Siemens Mobility will be a Vectron X.
The agreement covers 170 bogies from Akiem’s BB27000, BB37000 and BB37500 fleets.
The first two trains will operate on line U1 between Děčín and Kadaň.
The vehicles are part of an 11-car order approved by the Sound Transit Board in 2020.
State-owned Vy will take over services on the Sørlandsbanen and Jærbanen after the government decided to transfer the contract directly to the national operator.
Poland’s rail freight market does not lack scale. It lacks a stronger link with the road freight flows that already move across the country and between Poland and Western Europe.