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Caroline Huusko, technical manager of the association of European Infrastructure Managers (EIM), explained the organisation’s vision for the future of infrastructure management at the recent Nordic Rail exhibition. Kevin Smith was in the audience.

EUROPE’s North Sea-Mediterranean Rail Freight Corridor 2 (RFC 2) was set up in 2013 and runs from London, Dunkerque, Antwerp and Amsterdam through France to Marseille with a branch to Basle, Switzerland. It comprises 4662km of lines and 118 terminals in six countries with seven infrastructure managers and two path allocation bodies.

Oslo’s public transport administrator Ruter is adopting a pioneering approach to digitalisation as it prepares future public transport services in the Norwegian capital region. Kevin Smith travelled to the city to meet with CEO Bernt Reitan Jenssen to find out what the company has achieved and what it is planning for the future.

The publication of Trafikverket’s 2018-2029 Draft National Transport Infrastructure Plan at the end of August has set the agenda for the development of Sweden’s railway network in the 2020s. Keith Barrow looks at how the plan seeks to improve network performance, capacity and coverage.

MTR has steadily expanded its Swedish portfolio since it won its first concession to operate the Stockholm metro in 2009, and is now poised to bid for concessions in neighbouring Nordic countries, as David Briginshaw reports from the Swedish capital.

David Briginshaw joined Mats Johannesson, the new CEO of MTR Express, for a trip from Gothenburg to Stockholm on MTR’s first open-access inter-city operation on August 29 where he saw first-hand how the service is performing.

The European Railway Industry Association (Unife) published a position paper on railway digitalisation last month, which highlights the steps which need to be taken for the railway industry to keep pace with disruptive technologies and services.

The phased construction of Barcelona’s first fully-automated metro line has been accompanied by a complete rethink in the way the entire network is operated and maintained. This revolution in metro construction and operation has produced several benefits, as David Briginshaw discovered during a visit to Spain’s second city.