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25 September 2013 | By The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
The Law Commission has published a report which sets out plans to modernise, simplify and clarify the law governing level crossings...
24 July 2013 | By Department for Transport (DfT)
Work on a new high speed railway will continue after the Court of Appeal rejected further attempts to derail the scheme...
15 March 2013 | By Department for Transport (DfT)
Government wins HS2 phase one judicial review...
27 July 2012 | By Network Rail
Almost 1km of signalling cable was stolen from the railway between Luton and Bedford overnight...
6 December 2011 | By Richard Price, Chief Executive, Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
A recently published figure by the Association of Train Operating Companies provides, I think, one of the best and most revealing snapshots of the railways today. Between 26 June and 17 September 2011, 314.3 million passenger journeys took place on Great Britain’s railways – up 5.3% from the same period…
6 December 2011 | By Xavier Gruz, Project Director for the eastern branch of the Rhine- Rhône HSL, Réseau Ferré de France (RFF)
On 8 September 2011, Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) inaugurated the first part of the eastern branch of the Rhine-Rhône high-speed line. Included in the design and construction of this line, with its major socio-economic challenges, was a series of innovative environmental measures to ensure its long-term sustainability.
22 September 2011 | By Mary Bonar, Recognised leading rail and project finance lawyer, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Member of the Independent Transport Commission
The Rail Value for Money Study commissioned in 2010 by Britain’s then Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis, and the Office of Rail Regulation, and continued by the Coalition government, Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, was published in its final form in May 2011. It is to be followed by a government White…
17 September 2010 | By EIM
The heads of EIM welcome the far reaching revision of basic European railway regulation proposed today by the European Commission...
31 May 2010 | By Juhan Parts, Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
Steering the global recession to an upswing assumes new ideas and solutions from all economic sectors, and a well-functioning transportation system is one of the most important success factors in this process – we can accelerate growth of the economy only with efficient logistics.
23 February 2010 | By Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
The regulator will monitor new rules to ensure rolling stock leasing companies provide train operating companies with transparent information.
28 January 2010 | By Etienne Schouppe, Secretary of State for Mobility, Belgium
This year, Belgium will commemorate the 175th anniversary of the inauguration of the country’s first main line between Brussels and Malines.
12 December 2009 | By Jean-Pierre Audoux, Director General, French Railway Industry Association (FIF)
The environment of the French Railway Industry Association (FIF) members today has become much more complex than it was in the 80s and 90s, because France, like every European country, is currently in a long-term transition phase of its railway system. The end of the 90s marked the transition towards…
21 July 2009 | By Mr. Mauro Moretti, CEO of Italian Railways (Ferrovie dello Stato), Chairman of CER (the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies) and Vice-President of UIC (the International Union of Railways)
In an interview for Global Railway Review, Mr. Moretti gives his outlook on the European railways situation and also provides details of the important Florence to Bologna high-speed line, due to open in December 2009.
21 July 2009 | By Charles Wyss, Senior Program Manager of Gotthard Access and ZEB Program Portfolio and Markus Halder, Head of Energy Saving Initiative of the Rail Environmental Centre, Swiss Federal Railways SBB
Charles Wyss of Gotthard Access and ZEB Program Portfolio and Markus Halder of Swiss Federal Railways SBB discuss the long-term demand and future mobility requirements of its customers in both the passenger and freight sectors.
15 May 2009 | By Martin Munk Hansen, Manager of Rail Projects, Trafikstyrelsen (Public Transport Authority)
A summary of Denmark's Public Transport Authority's goals, tasks, and railway projects, including expanding capacity between Copenhagen and Ringsted, modernisation of Nørreport Station and improvements to the Northwest Line between Roskilde and Holbæk.
