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May 10, 2022 | Passenger

New leadership team seeks to grow Westbahn’s offer

Westbahn is ready to leave the Covid era behind and is eyeing service expansion in Austria and beyond, as recently appointed joint managing director, Thomas Posch, explains to Kevin Smith.

May 9, 2022 | Technology

The new Karlsruhe Model: data sharing

Apps and Artificial Intelligence could be the answer to creating better public transport within cities and reducing the dependence on cars. Richard Clinnick reports on plans under development in Karlsruhe, which is no stranger to public transport innovation.

May 4, 2022 | Fleet

Modifications required for class 80X fleet to combat cracking

Cracks discovered in Britain’s Hitachi-built inter-city fleet in May 2021 prompted a review by the Office of Rail and Road into what happened. As Richard Clinnick reports, a long-term repair programme will now commence to rectify the issue.

April 27, 2022 | Europe

Rising energy prices a challenge for European rail sector

The European rail sector is grappling with spiralling energy costs, which are exacerbated by uncertainty following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. IRJ’s editorial team rounds up the recent response and developments from across the industry.

April 25, 2022 | Signalling

Is Europe finally falling in love with ERTMS?

Whisper it quietly, but Europe may just have turned a corner on deploying ERTMS. Matthias Ruete, Europe’s ERTMS coordinator at DG Move, explains the current state of play to Kevin Smith.

April 21, 2022 | Asia

India’s metro journey continues with network expansion

With India’s urban population increasing from 285 million in 2001 to 473 million in 2021, the country is focusing on rapidly expanding metro networks to ease congestion. But as Srinand Jha reports, this is not always running as smoothly as planned.

April 19, 2022 | Rolling stock

New maintenance methods improve train availability

Marco Caposciutti, Paolo Masini and Alessandro Valentini from Trenitalia, Gareth Tucker from the Institute of Railway Research at the University of Huddersfield, and Luisa Moisio from the Rail Safety and Standards Board share progress on new technologies and approaches to rolling stock maintenance and refurbishment.

April 14, 2022 | Technology

Out with the old, in with the new

The development of the Digital Automatic Coupler is progressing to the testing stage, with trials underway or planned across Europe. David Burroughs talks to the suppliers manufacturing the couplers to see how they have been developed and asks what the benefits of integration will be.

April 12, 2022 | Signalling

Restoring order to Denmark’s signalling programme

Denmark’s national ERTMS programme and the project to rollout CBTC on the Copenhagen S-Bane cleared several significant hurdles in 2021. Kevin Smith gets the latest from Banedanmark’s signalling programme director, Thilde Restofte Pedersen, and Janus Steen Møller, director of signalling systems.

April 5, 2022 | Technology

SNCF rethinks its automatic trains project

Carole Desnost, SNCF’s director of technologies, innovation and group projects, reflects on progress with the company’s innovation strategy in an interview with Kevin Smith.

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