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NORWAY’s incoming government has announced plans to stop tendering rail services in the country, with the government yet to confirm how these will be operated in future.
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Responsibility for the development of plans for a high speed line between Helsinki and Turku has been transferred from the national transport infrastructure agency Väylävirasto to the dedicated project body which was established to oversee the project through to completion.
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THE National Audit Office of Estonia has found that land acquisition for the Estoninan section of the Rail Baltica high-speed line through Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia has fallen five years behind schedule with planning for the project also delayed.
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CZECH infrastructure manager SZ has announced a tender worth Koruna 4bn ($US 182.8m) for a contractor to double track and electrify the 5km Kladno – Kladno-Ostrovec section of the 29km Prague – Kladno line, the first element of a project to upgrade the route.
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NORWAY’s incoming government has announced plans to stop tendering rail services in the country, with these services instead operated by incumbent, state-owned Vy Tog.
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With a substantial investment strategy in place and negotiations for a new operating contract underway, Denmark’s state passenger operator is positioning itself to drive modal shift in a post-Covid recovery, DSB Chief Executive Flemming Jensen tells Chris Jackson.
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SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has built a demonstration ticketing app using the newly developed Open Sales and Distribution Model (OSDM) Application Programming Interface (API) in seven days as a showcase of the specification’s capabilities.
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THE state of Baden-Württemberg has ordered three battery-electric two-car Mireo Plus B trains from Siemens Mobility, which will operate on the new Hermann Hesse railway between Renningen and Calw from 2023.
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SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has confirmed that preparatory work on the project to replace a single-track section of railway between Twann and Ligerz on the Biel/Bienne – Neuchâtel line will commence on October 18.
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EUROSTAR has confirmed it will operate nine return trains between London and Paris every weekday from December 12 2021 until January 8 2022, along with five return services between London and Brussels and two between London and Amsterdam as part of its Christmas 2021 timetable.
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BAVARIAN Railway Company (BEG) has selected Agilis for a 12-year contract to continue to operate non-electrified rail services in Upper Franconia and neighbouring regions, including cross-border services to the Czech Republic.
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ABELLIO Germany is continuing to seek new contractual arrangements with the German states it serves while cutting the size of its business by selling subsidiaries and reducing the number of routes it operates after leaving a three-month period of court supervised financial protection on October 1 during which the federal government paid employee salaries.
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ALSTOM has been selected by Société du Grand Paris (SGP), in agreement with Île-de-France Mobility (IDFM), to supply up to 37 trains and the automation systems for the new Grand Paris Express Line 18.
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Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail and the national project implementers Eiropas Dzelzceļa Līnijas, Rail Baltic Estonia and LTG Infra have awarded Certifer a €4·5m contract to act as the single safety assessment services provider
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GERMAN Rail (DB) and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train that operates autonomously by using ATO over ETCS in Hamburg on October 11.
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As part of the work feeding into the country’s upcoming National Railway Plan, the Vale d’Ouro Association has put forward proposals for a new line through the Trás-os-Montes region to link Porto with Zamora in Spain.
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RAILCOOP, a cooperative which intends to launch a series of conventional, long-distance open-access passenger services in France, has announced that it has been forced to postpone the launch of its first service, a twice daily train between Bordeaux and Lyon, from June 26 2022 to December 11 2022.
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Deutsche Bahn and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train in Hamburg equipped for automatic train operation at the city’s Dammtor station on October 11.
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POLAND’s Solidarity Transport Hub (STH) has released a tender for a design framework contract worth more than Zlotys 7bn ($US 1.7bn) which covers 29 projects divided into 82 sections, including nearly 1800km of rail lines.
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Deutsche Bahn and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first S-Bahn train in Hamburg equipped for automatic train operation at the city’s Dammtor station on October 11.
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AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB) has confirmed to Stadler that it will restart the tender process for a framework contract to supply up to 186 double-deck trains after the Austrian Federal Administrative Court declared the contract was null and void last month due to an alleged formal error in the offer’s qualified electronic signature. Stadler has criticised the move and says it will appeal the decision.
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A position paper setting out a long-term ‘political vision’ for the seamless planning and booking of international rail journeys has been published by the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies. However, independent passenger operators are disappointed at the lack of firm commitments.
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The largest tender in Swiss rail history has been awarded to Stadler for 510 new single-decker FLIRT multiple units
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THE Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) has published a ticketing roadmap, which outlines further improvements to the customer experience when planning, booking, and travelling internationally by rail.
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ADVANCED sales of the Klimaticket Ö, Austria’s first annual nationwide public transport ticket valid on services provided by all public transport operators, including ÖBB and Westbahn, began on October 1 ahead of the pass becoming active on October 26.
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