On Thursday, 29 February, French rail operator Kevin Speed was received by Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete and signed a framework agreement with SNCF Réseau, which must be submitted to the regulatory authority ART. The agreement secures Kevin Speed the train paths for the introduction of its innovative rail service ilisto…

On 25 January, the kick-off event for our new project ‘Linking transport services on the Main Line with tourism marketing’ took place. The project fulfils an important requirement of our strategy and is set to start this year with around 25 partners, primarily tourism organisations along the Main Line for…

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…

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.

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…

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…