railway companies

By the end of 2025, 33 new-generation ÖBB Nightjets will be on the rails, linking European cities by night at speeds of up to 230 km/h. The first trains are due to enter service from late summer 2023 on the most popular routes between Austria, Germany and Italy. Before reaching...

Following in the footsteps of Germany, where trains cost 9 euros during the summer, and Austria, which launched an annual pass for low-cost rail travel, Spain has now joined the list of countries that have made rail travel a major priority in the current crisis. Support for purchasing power, energy savings by limiting the use of fossil fuels,...

Train travel across the Channel is set for further major disruption in the near future... A major strike action has been formalised by the ASLEF union, which claims to represent 96% of train drivers in England, Scotland and Wales. The walkout will begin at 0.00am on Thursday 15 September...

It's a world first. These days, Germany is seeing the first hydrogen-powered trains enter service, in this case the Coradia iLint regional train designed by Alstom. After two years of trials, this innovation is becoming a reality on the railway line linking Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude, in Lower Saxony. "We are very proud to be able to bring this...

After the Paris-Lyon route last December, the 'red arrows' - the Frecciarossa high-speed trains used by Trenitalia - are due to enter the Spanish market on 25 November, according to some local media. In Spain, where the opening up of the rail market is more than a reality, in addition to the high-speed trains operated by the national company Renfe and...

In recent days, Fiumicino airport has taken another step towards multimodality, and in the process has taken on a new dimension in the Italian mobility market. Trenitalia has launched three new Frecciarossa connections to the Roman hub. The railway company now links Fuimicino to two Neapolitan stations - Napoli Centrale and...

"Business travel has picked up more quickly than we expected in 2022, especially when you consider that we are still only running around three quarters of our pre-pandemic transport plan". François Le Doze, Eurostar's commercial director, makes this positive assessment for the business travel ecosystem, and says he is "convinced that this recovery will have a positive...

A chorus of mutual praise marked the celebration of 15 years of high-speed rail services between Deutsche Bahn (DB) and SNCF. Launched in 2007, this cooperation has enabled 25 million people to travel between France and Germany. The railway lines between France and Germany...

First announced for June 2022, then postponed until December, the inauguration of Railcoop has now been postponed indefinitely due to difficulties in securing financing from the banks. In other words, the funds needed to enable it to acquire the nine railcars dedicated to operating the future Bordeaux-Lyon line. Railcoop currently only owns...

It's not so easy to venture into low-cost territory on a route favoured by business travellers... At least, that's what the decision made official this week by Thalys seems to mean, as the company is putting an end to its low-cost offer. On 10 July, IZY will disappear from the radar after six years of operation. "...

Alstom has just confirmed that Sweden's national railway company, SJ, has decided to purchase new high-speed trains. These trains will be the fastest in Sweden, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometres per hour. They will be used for long-distance rail services between Sweden's major cities. They will also be used for...

Following the green light given to the Eurostar/Thalys merger by the European Commission in March, a new stage in this project has just been completed with the merger of the two rail companies within the Eurostar Group holding company, named after the cross-Channel carrier, the brand name that will continue to exist. While Eurostar Group's address is...

At the end of January, the botched launch of the SNCF Connect application clearly did the business of its challenger, Trainline. In the three weeks following this laborious changeover, the independent booking platform recorded a sharp increase in the number of its customers and 50% in its sales of Inoui TGV tickets...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) enjoyed a more favourable year in 2021 thanks to the first wave of relaxation of health constraints during the spring and summer. As a result, the railway company recorded double-digit revenue growth, exceeding the level achieved in 2019. DB Group revenues rose by 18.4 1TP3Q...

The horizon is clearing for the planned merger between the Eurostar and Thalys rail companies. The European Commission has just given the go-ahead for the merger, ruling that "the proposed concentration would not raise competition concerns, given its very limited impact on market structure". [link-block prefix="A...

How is Lyria's business traffic doing? Fabien Soulet - After a period of recovery in the second half of 2021, Lyria experienced a blip in December-January due to the fifth wave of the Covid epidemic caused by the Omicron variant. The recovery is now strong, which has convinced us to...

On 17 March, Jean-Marie Djebbari, the French Minister for Ecological Transition with responsibility for Transport, and Christophe Fanichet, CEO of Sncf Voyageurs, signed an agreement to develop the Intercités day and night service. The agreement, which runs until 2031, covers some 80 daily trains carrying 8.4 million passengers a year, with...

Three months after the launch of its high-speed rail service in France between Paris and Milan, Trenitalia is sticking to its transport plan, announcing a gradual increase in its offer between now and the summer. In addition to the two daily connections of its Frecciarossa high-speed train, which has been running between Paris and Milan since 18 December via Lyon, Chambéry,...

Brussels-Amsterdam by train? The Thalys high-speed train immediately springs to mind. It currently runs eight times a day between the two cities in 1 hour 52 minutes. In comparison, the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in cooperation with the Belgian railway company SNCB links the two cities 11 times a day on average. But with a journey time of...

The two railway companies RENFE and SNCF are to cease joint operation of the high-speed train lines between France and Spain. Cooperation between the two carriers will cease at the end of 2022. Launched in 2013, the lines operated jointly by the two operators have never been profitable, and SNCF has been unable to...