Quintus Vosman

BAVARIAN Railway Company (BEG) and Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport have jointly published a tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union for the contract to operate the Allgäu Electric Network in southwest Germany.

CONSTRUCTION began on a €1.5bn project to upgrade a key rail freight link between the Netherlands and Germany on January 20, when North Rhine Westphalia state transport minister Mr Michael Goschek, Mr Enak Ferlemann, parliamentary state secretary of the German Ministry of Transport, and German Rail (DB) board member for infrastructure Mr Ronald Pofalla officially launched the expansion and modernisation of the 73km Emmerich - Oberhausen line.

THE introduction of Škoda trains on DB Regio Oberbayern’s Munich - Nuremberg Express high-speed regional services moved a step closer on January 21, when a class 102 locomotive began testing with a set of double-deck coaches at the VUZ Velim test track in the Czech Republic.

UTRECHT provincial councillor for mobility Mrs Jacqueine Verbeek-Nijhof and CAF commercial director Mr Josu Esnaola signed a contract in the Dutch city on January 18 for an additional batch of 22 Urbos 100 low-floor LRVs.

THE Netherlands' secretary of state at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Mrs Sharon Dijksma, has approved the allocation of a further €25m to eliminate the Dutch railway network’s final unsecured level crossings.

DB Regio has secured two concessions to operate regional services in four German states.

CZECH minister of Transport Mr Dan Ťok confirmed on December 20 that the government will advance a project to convert the country’s existing 1796km 3kV dc electric network to 25kV ac in order to standardise Czech mainlines.

THE public transport authorities of Bremen and Hamburg, Lower Saxony Transport Authority (LNVG), and the region of Hannover have published a tender to operate five regional and fast train services from December 9 2018 until December 10 2033.

BAVARIAN Railway Company (BEG) has decided to award German Rail’s (DB) regional division, DB Regio, a contract for both lots of a concession to operate the Nuremberg S-Bahn network.

GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Zugbus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee and Swiss Federal Railways’ (SBB) German subsidiary SBB Deutschland have been awarded the tender for regional passenger train services of the ‘Aulendorfer Kreuz’ regional network by the public transport authorities of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG).