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Customer-centric rail: closing the passenger journey gap

2026-08-12T11:20:00+01:00Sponsored by Nomad Digital

Passengers judge the whole journey, not the train. A report on the experience that now decides whether they choose rail.

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Railways have begun to shape diplomacy, not follow it
2026-08-24T11:44:00+01:00 Chitresh Shrivastva and Ian Westcott
Railways have stopped simply connecting nations. Increasingly, they are helping decide how nations relate to one another.
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Railmaster: shaping the future of rail maintenance
2026-08-10T13:46:00+01:00Sponsored by Linsinger, Walter Kastinger
Ahead of InnoTrans 2026, Linsinger’s Walter Kastinger on how the Railmaster mills rail and swaps tools without stopping the machine.
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Building a railway from the desert up: why the UAE’s national network matters
2026-08-07T08:00:00+01:00 Etihad Rail
Etihad Rail’s freight-first strategy is creating a national railway designed to strengthen logistics, passenger mobility and long-term economic growth.

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Hitachi Rail to modernise Jakarta MRT fare collection system across 13 stations
2026-08-25T10:16:00+01:00 Gabriel Higgins
Hitachi Rail and PT Softorb Technology Indonesia have been awarded a contract to modernise automatic fare collection across all 13 stations of MRT Jakarta’s Phase 1 line.
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Greater Copenhagen Light Rail fully opens with Siemens Mobility’s Avenio fleet in service
2026-08-25T09:42:00+01:00 Gabriel Higgins
Siemens Mobility and Aarsleff Rail have completed the Greater Copenhagen Light Rail, opening all 29 stations along the 28km route and introducing a fleet of Avenio vehicles.
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Dubai Metro Blue Line uses laser scanning to support high-accuracy construction
2026-08-24T16:26:00+01:00 Gabriel Higgins
Surveying teams working on Dubai Metro’s Blue Line have used 3D laser scanning to capture existing infrastructure with accuracy below 5mm.
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New ICE service to connect the Netherlands directly with Hamburg and Bremen
2026-08-24T16:05:00+01:00 Gabriel Higgins
NS International will introduce new ICE services linking the Netherlands with Hamburg and Bremen from October, offering travellers a direct route of around four hours.

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Customer-centric rail: closing the passenger journey gap

2026-08-12T11:20:00+01:00Sponsored by Nomad Digital

Passengers judge the whole journey, not the train. A report on the experience that now decides whether they choose rail.

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Rail traction energy: coupling sustainability with technology trade-offs and strategic choices

2026-05-18T14:27:00+01:00 Simon Fletcher

Simon Fletcher, founder of Fletch Rail Advisory, examines the strategic choices behind rail traction energy, weighing electrification, battery and hydrogen solutions and the challenges of scaling them across networks.

Mirroring reality: how digital twinning impacts the rail industry

2026-03-13T14:16:00+00:00 Gabriel Higgins

Global Railway Review exclusively interviewed LNER’s Adrian Varma and Northern’s Marc Silverwood to explore how digital twins are transforming railway operations, enabling real-time decision-making, predictive testing and smarter disruption management.