THE 39-year-old DB Networks signalman, who was on duty when two Meridian trains collided head on near Bad Aibling, Germany, on February 9, has been convicted of negligence and sentenced to 3 years 6 months in prison.

DB Networks has successfully carried out tests of Vossloh’s High Speed Grinding technology on turnouts and is expected to expand deployment across the German network in 2017. Dr Konstantin von Diest, head of preventive maintenance at Vossloh Rail Services, and Mr Rainer Meyer, head of turnout maintenance and Flexis at Vossloh Mobile Rail Services, reveal the work that has taken place over the last three years.

AHEAD of the German national elections in 2017, the German Railway Industry Association (VDB) and seven other railway associations have put forward three policy initiatives designed to boost rail traffic.

DB Network is planning to extend its remote point condition monitoring programme, connecting more than 12,500 point machines to the Diana monitoring and analysis platform, for which Strukton will deliver another 800 data loggers.

TRANSPORT ministers from Germany’s federal states have backed plans to introduce 740m-long freight trains across the German rail network at a summit held in Stuttgart on October 6.

IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: Germany’s new open-access operator Locomore presented one of its refurbished locomotive-hauled passenger coaches as it prepares to introduce its first service linking Stuttgart and Berlin on December 14.

IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: A tunnel inspection vehicle designed and built by Plasser & Theurer for DB Network was officially presented to the German infrastructure manager at InnoTrans on September 21.

THE managing director of Germany's Pro-Rail Alliance, Mr Dirk Flege, has called for politicians to act on upgrading Germany’s rail network to accept 740m-long 35-wagon freight trains, which is supposed to become the standard in Europe.

A CEREMONY was held on May 25 to mark the official start of construction of the 4270m Rastatt tunnel which forms part of a €11.6bn project to upgrade the 182km Karlsruhe - Basle main line for 250km/h operation.

GO-AHEAD Transport Germany has awarded a contract to Stadler for 45 Flirt EMUs to operate on Lots 2 and 3 of the Stuttgart Network 1 concession which Go-Ahead will take over in April 2019.