11 January, 2024 | Bruxelles
The Council presidency and European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on a revised regulation regarding EU guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). The new legislation aims to build a reliable, seamless, and high-quality transport network that ensures sustainable connectivity across Europe without physical interruptions, bottlenecks, and missing…
28 June, 2023 | Bruxelles
Even though the new European Sleeper night train connects Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin and thus unfortunately does not operate on the ‘Main Line for Europe’, we still don’t want to deprive you of this wonderfully designed interactive map from Politico magazine: The Sleeper Train awakes.
26 June, 2023 | Ulm, Augsburg
The Ulm-Augsburg railway project has made considerable progress in the train path selection procedure (TAV): The catalogue of criteria was adopted at the end of June. In dialogue with the bodies, the dialogue forum and the project coordination council, suggestions from the region were discussed and incorporated. The catalogue now…
17 June, 2023 | Stuttgart
As part of the large-scale project Digital Rail Germany (DKS), the conversion of the entire control and safety technology to digital interlockings (DSTW), ETCS Level 2 without signals and other technologies such as the new train radio system FRMCS and automated operation, the Stuttgart node is a particularly important pilot…
9 June, 2023 | Ulm, Augsburg
Why is the Ulm-Augsburg railway infrastructure project so important for the Magistrale for Europe? What are the issues that concern us on a daily basis? And what are the obstacles in the European rail network that we are trying to overcome between Paris and Budapest? We answer all these questions…
17 April, 2023 | Budapest
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is expanding its network in Southeast Europe. As the company announces, a new train is now running between Budapest and the Croatian Mediterranean port of Rijeka. This is a direct connection without a stopover for maritime goods flows. According to RCG, the Budapest-Rijeka connection is…