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September 22, 2020 | Freight

Rail freight industry leaders sign digital coupling MoU

MEMBERS of the European campaign group Rail Freight Forward (RFF), as well as seven industry associations, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) expressing their support for the implementation of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) on all European freight trains by 2030.

September 18, 2020 | Policy

European Parliament approves track access relief for operators

THE European Parliament has adopted a regulation to provide relief to rail operators hit by falling volumes and revenue during the coronavirus pandemic by allowing Member States to waive and relax track access and reservation charges as well as easing mark-up regulations applied for using European railway networks.

September 17, 2020 | Financial

Australian rail spending dips

THE value of rail infrastructure contracts awarded in 2020 have shown a marked decline in absolute terms and as a proportion of the total infrastructure spend, according to figures produced by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA).

September 17, 2020 | Infrastructure

Lithuania awards design contract for Kaunas railway node

THE Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications and national infrastructure manager LTG Infra have awarded a €1.1m contract to Spanish engineering firm Ardanuy Ingenieria to prepare development plans for the Kaunas railway node as part of the Rail Baltica project.

September 17, 2020 | Freight

Learning the lessons of Rastatt

Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.

September 16, 2020 | Infrastructure

First section of Australia’s Inland Rail project completed

THE first section of Australia’s 1700km $A 10bn ($US 7.3bn) Melbourne - Brisbane Inland Rail project has been completed with the opening of the Parkes - Narromine section in New South Wales (NSW) on September 15. The milestone was marked with the hammering in of a gold clip in Parkes, where the project was launched in December 2018.

September 16, 2020 | Financial

Czech Railways reports first-half losses

CZECH Railways (ČD) has reported a loss of Korunas 1.98bn ($US 87.9m) for the first six months of the year, compared with the same period in 2019.

September 15, 2020 | Financial

Katie Farmer named CEO of BNSF

NORTH American Class 1 BNSF has appointed executive vice-president (EVP) - operations, Ms Katie Farmer, to succeed Mr Carl Ice as president and CEO, the first time a woman has been named in charge of a North American Class 1 railway.

September 14, 2020 | Infrastructure

Malaysian government announces East Coast Rail Link realignment

THE Malaysian government has announced plans to realign its Ringgit 44bn ($US 10.57bn) East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, reverting to the project’s original route with minor adjustments south of Kuala Lumpur.

September 11, 2020 | Financial

Divača - Koper track doubling project awarded Cohesion Fund grant

THE European Commission (EC) has awarded an €80m grant through the European Union’s (EU) Cohesion Fund for the construction of a tunnel and two viaducts, as part of a project to track double the line between Divača, in western Slovenia, and the Port of Koper on the northern Adriatic Sea.

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