NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has launched an investigation into allegations of corruption in the tender for a €510m contract to supply 118 Sprinter EMUs, which was awarded to CAF in December.

AFTER several frustrated attempts, the government of Flanders has once again raised the prospect of reopening the Iron Rhine, a direct rail link between the port of Antwerp and Mönchengladbach in Germany's industrial Ruhr region, which closed in the 1990s.

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) says it is seeking to improve its financial performance this year after returning to profit in 2014.

FOLLOWING a public tender, the Dutch province of Limburg has granted Netherlands Railways subsidiary Abellio a 15-year concession covering all regional bus and rail services in the province.

BOMBARDIER formally handed over the last of 19 Traxx F140 MS (class 186) multi-system electric locomotives for Netherlands Railways (NS) in a ceremony at the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht on February 6.

P&O Ferries announced on January 23 that it will begin work soon on a project to expand its rail hub at Rotterdam Europoort which aims to accommodate burgeoning traffic at the terminal.

DUTCH secretary of state for infrastructure Mrs Wilma Mansveld signed 10-year concession agreements on December 15 with Netherlands Railways (NS) for the operation of the so-called core network and with ProRail for the management of the country's mainline rail infrastructure.

NEW train schedules were launched across Europe on December 14, and according to the December issue of the European Rail Timetable, the improvements outnumber the number of services being withdrawn.