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June 2, 2020 | Financial

IRJ in Brief - Financial: ONCF announces 2019 results; Bane Nor to take contractual risk; Knorr-Bremse’s revenue down

MOROCCO: Moroccan National Railways (ONCF) recorded Dirham 3.76bn ($US 385.4m) in revenue in 2019, up 9.3% from 2018, with a surplus of Dirham 929m, up 10.5%. Passenger numbers were up 8%, to 38.2 million for the year.

June 1, 2020 | Main line

Northern Powerhouse Rail appoints consultant

TRANSPORT for the North (TfN) has appointed Mace to lead the Programme Support Office for the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) programme to improve rail connections between cities in northern England.

June 1, 2020 | Main line

China completes challenging track-doubling project

CHINA National Railway (CR) has completed a technically challenging project to rebuild a 68km section of the Chengdu - Kunming railway.

June 1, 2020 | Main line

RegioJet set to launch summer night train service to Croatia

CZECH private operator RegioJet is set to launch a summer overnight service between the Czech Republic and the coast of Croatia on three nights a week from June 30.

May 30, 2020 | Main line

Former freight line opens to passenger traffic in northwest Germany as long-term reopening plan agreed

NORTH West Railway (NWB) introduced an hourly weekend and holiday passenger service from Duisburg via the 10km former freight line between Rheinkamp and Kamp-Lintfort in North Rhine Westphalia on May 16.

May 29, 2020 | Infrastructure

12 US projects secure $US 300m FRA state of good repair grants

THE US Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has announced the recipients of more than $US 302m in grant funds under the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program.

May 29, 2020 | Europe

Shift2Rail call for proposals receives 43 requests worth €113.3m

EUROPE's Shift2Rail (S2R) research initiative has received 43 requests for a combined €113.3m in funding in its 2020 call for proposals, around 50% more than the €75.4m in available funding.

May 28, 2020 | Main line

SBB and ÖBB to resume near-normal timetable

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) and Austrain Federal Railways (ÖBB) are resumming services following a relaxation of Covid-19 travel restrictions.

May 28, 2020 | Fleet

Disconnected brakes cause Caledonian sleeper overshoot

THE driver of the Caledonian Lowlander sleeper service had lost all control of the coach brakes due to a closed cock when the train overshot its platform by 650m on August 1 2019, an investigation has found.

May 28, 2020 | Policy

Rail regulators call for unilateral availability of state aid

THE Independent Regulators’ Group - Rail (IRG-Rail) has called for European Union (EU) member states to provide state aid on equal terms to all train operators, infrastructure managers and rail service providers to prevent distorting a competitive market place.

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