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6 August 2015 | By Marco Ceriani, Chief Construction Officer of AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd
The NRLA Gotthard Axis comprises of the Gotthard Base Tunnel and the 15km-long Ceneri Base Tunnel. The two single-track tubes of the Ceneri Base Tunnel are complemented by branch-off structures to allow additional traffic connections. So that the ambitious time schedule can be met despite difficult geological conditions, work on…
6 August 2015 | By Lukas Spengeler, Project Manager at SBB
Who isn’t familiar with the big blue display information boards in Switzerland’s main train stations? At the time of the display installation more than 25 years ago, these units were the leading technology. Printed panels showed the train information for departing trains. Updating of the information caused the panels to…
6 August 2015 | By Chris Montgomery, Network Rail’s Project Director for the Birmingham New Street project
After five years of engineering and building works, the finished product is now in sight at Birmingham New Street Station. In this article, Chris Montgomery, Network Rail’s Project Director for the Birmingham New Street project, details what the new station will mean for its passengers, and the city as a…
6 August 2015 | By Andrew Keating, Programme Director, South East Flexible Ticketing (SEFT) Programme
The past year has seen substantial developments for the South East Flexible Ticketing (SEFT) Programme. Andrew Keating, Programme Director, gives Global Railway Review an update.
In this free-to-view online-only supplement, Chief Procurement Officers from DB, SNCF and NS discuss the Railsponsible initiative, the MERLIN project gets assessed, and the Eress leaders take a look at what’s next for Erex...
Eress is an open partnership for infrastructure managers, jointly owned by its partners, committed to the development, implementation and supply of Erex – an efficient, reliable, accurate and flexible energy settlement system which allows infrastructure managers to fulfil requirements for a neutral and non-discriminatory operation, and allows train operators to…
The MERLIN1 project ‘Sustainable and Intelligent Management of Energy for Smarter Railway Systems in Europe: an Integrated Optimisation Approach’ is co-funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme and involves 18 partners including European railway systems integrators and equipment suppliers, railway operators and infrastructure managers, research centres, consultancies companies and professional…
In March 2015, Alstom, Bombardier, Deutsche Bahn, Knorr Bremse, Nederlandse Spoorwegen and SNCF came together in Utrecht to officially launch Railsponsible, a collaborative initiative aimed at improving sustainability practices throughout the railway industry supply chain. To understand how Railsponsible will help railway industry companies tackle the sustainable procurement challenges they…
Fact-finding visits to railways around the world can be beneficial for each party to learn and share information on good-practice and techniques. As Chris Carson, Head of Rail Industry Partnership Working at Virgin Trains East Coast explains, this approach has been adopted by the train operator who is committed to…
As the EEIG ERTMS Users Group marks its 20th anniversary this year, Managing Director Michel Ruesen gives an overview of how it has evolved over the years, the important role it currently plays in the industry, and how it hopes to continue helping during the years of growth that ERTMS…
With a length of 18.2km, the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Fehmarn in Germany and Lolland in Denmark will be the world’s longest combined rail and road tunnel and an important piece of EU infrastructure. A tunnel of this length and with handover of trains between Denmark and Germany to…
In this issue: Czech Republic regional profile, High-Speed Rail supplement, Southeast Europe profile, Rail Ticketing and much more...
In our latest free-to-view High-Speed Rail Supplement, Andrew McNaughton, Chief Engineer for HS2 Ltd gives a project update as the hopeful start of construction date draws closer, plus Christian Schang from SNCF Réseau looks at the challenges to come for French high-speed line developments and network modernisation...
4 June 2015 | By Dan Tok – Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic
As a result of a key decision adopted in the early-1990s to modernise the Czech railway network, the construction plan of the rail transit corridors will be implemented by 2020. It was determined that four rail transit corridors were to be featured on the railway network, establishing the most important…
4 June 2015 | By Pavel Surý, Director General of the Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration
In the words of Pavel Surý, Director General of the Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration, state organisation (RIA): “nothing is for free”. By that he means that time is running out for drawing down a significant amount of European money from the Operational Programmes on Transport which will, however, result in…
