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17 March 2016 | By RSSB
In an article for Global Railway Review, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) discusses recent changes to standards for rail vehicles ensuring trains are sufficiently audible and visible on Britain’s railways…
9 March 2016 | By SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
FIVE will bring together scientists, regulators, test engineers, industry, suppliers, insurance companies and other organizations from the diverse field of transportation to discuss important fire issues....
Trafikverket – the Swedish Transport Administration – is prioritising winter maintenance so that rail transport runs punctually, even during harsh conditions. Trafikverket’s Spokesman for Railway Winter Services, Stefan Jonsson, explains there needs to be a high level of preparedness and knowledge to be able to handle the effects of the…
1 October 2015 | By António Ramalho, CEO of Infraestruturas de Portugal
Infraestruturas de Portugal, the State-owned company established from the recent merging of REFER, E.P.E.,(railways administrator) and EP-Estradas de Portugal, E.P., (road administrator), both former public infrastructure managers, is putting together an ambitious programme to expand and modernise the rail network in Portugal, supported by EU funds, with a total investment…
4 June 2015 | By Matthew Hannaway and Mike Pollard, Network Rail
Network Rail in the UK has been working with the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to tackle the cost of contingency on railway projects. Network Rail’s Matthew Hannaway, Head of Project Risk and Value Management and Mike Pollard, Head of Collaborative Working, explain further...
16 March 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) and French rail regulator ARAF have today signed an agreement regulating Channel Tunnel access.
13 February 2015 | By Dr Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, Strategic Planning Senior Advisor, TRAINOSE S.A.
TRAINOSE S.A was established in 2005 as a subsidiary of the OSE Group (the Hellenic Railways Organisation) responsible for the provision of passenger and rail freight transport. Since then it has undergone significant restructuring in order to meet EU regulations. Strategic Planning Senior Adviser Nikolaos Athanasopoulos gives an insight...
13 February 2015 | By Wilma Mansveld, State Secretary of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands
Every day, more than one million people in the Netherlands – out of a population of almost 17 million – rely on trains and railroads to get to work and back home again. This is no small feat considering the complexity of the country’s railway system and the length of…
3 December 2014 | By Jean-Pierre Audoux, FIF
2014 may not have run its full course quite yet, but it has already been marked in France by the adoption of the French railway system reform in early-August, therefore heralding the advent of a new public-sector organisation englobing SNCF and the infrastructure manager set-up in 1997, RFF (Réseau ferré…
18 September 2014 | By Elisabeth Sinclair – Project Leader for the North Bothnian Line Group
The North Bothnian Line forms the last link in the Bothnian Corridor which is part of the strategic European mainline rail Core Network. The EU and the Region are willing to finance the line estimated to cost €2.6 billion, and all that is missing now is a positive decision from…
5 August 2014 | By Antoine Da Trindade, Managing Director for CEVA
CEVA is the acronym for the 16km-long Cornavin–Eaux-Vives–Annemasse rail link project connecting Switzerland and France. It is a project stepped in history which dates back as long ago as 1850. Following many false starts, political disagreements, citizen complaints and objections which went all the way to the Swiss Federal Administrative…
4 June 2014 | By Ketil Solvik-Olsen, Minister of Transport and Communications for Norway
As Minister of Transport and Communications for Norway, Ketil Solvik-Olsen is concerned with improving people’s daily travel habits. For Global Railway Review, Ketil explains that since the Norwegian Conservative Party (Høyre) and the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) came to power in October 2013, a process has been in place to make…
4 June 2014 | By Jörgen Nyström, Business Sector Manager for Elmia Nordic Rail
On 6-8 October 2015, Nordic Rail will once again invite the railway industry to Jönköping in Sweden for an opportunity for companies, organisations and industry peers to discuss what the future holds for rail in Scandinavia. In an exclusive interview for Global Railway Review, Jörgen Nyström, Business Sector Manager for…
4 June 2014 | By Ahti Asmann, Chairman of the Management Board at AS Eesti Radutee
Ahti Asmann, Chairman of the Management Board at AS Eesti Radutee explains that a series of major improvements have been carried out to the railways in Estonia over recent years, and 2014 is set to continue this trend. Following the recent separation of the country’s rail infrastructure and cargo enterprises,…
11 April 2014 | By James Abbott, Technical Editor, Global Railway Review
Railway liberalisation in the European Union took a big step backwards in February when the European Parliament threw out the Governance Section of the 4th Railway Package – built on earlier EU legislation requiring state railways to be split into infrastructure and operating units. The new section looked for total…
