In February 2017, the Ministry for Transport in the state of Baden-Württemberg ordered 24 Mireo trains and 15 Desiro HC double-decker…
In the near future, the current 750 mm gauge Waldenburg Railway will be converted into a metre-gauge, low-floor, electric tramway …
Due to a lack of financial resources and funds from the public authorities, the Achensee rack railway had to file for insolvency, the…
The Achsensee metre-gauge cog railway in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol has been operated for more than 130 years. Traditionally,…
At the end of February, the Germany-wide association of Land Transport Authorities, BAG-SPNV, organized the yearly encounter the…
It is a real premiere for Germany, as from the beginning of the 1900’s until 1995, battery-powered trains used to be state of the art once.…
The end of the GDR „Reichsbahn“ trains is close: commuters between Chemnitz and Leipzig will be traveling much more comfortable and…
After several decades of decline most of the remaining German regional railway lines benefited from considerable investments in …
Railway liberalisation is arriving in the French regional railway market. With around 38 billion passenger-kilometres (pkm) per…
According to the Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger of July 22, 2019, the private Austrian railway undertaking Westbahn sells its 17 double-decker…