Topic: ERTMS

Malmbanan The Iron Ore Line is now the first line in Sweden to have ERTMS (partially) installed

The Iron Ore Line (Swedish: Malmbanan), now has ERTMS installed on a part of its length. Between Gällivare and Kiruna in northern Sweden, trains have…
Rail freight misses out on German rail expansion act funding

Rail freight will not be included in the German Federal Railway Infrastructure Expansion Act (BSWAG). As a result, German rail freight will miss out on…
sector message ‘A fairer rail freight market means fewer state-owned companies’

“There is no reason for the member states to act indirectly as market participants via state-owned, integrated companies”. This was stated in a joint paper…
TEN-T Revision New TEN-T: extra ERTMS deployment deadlines, unclear vision for rolling stock

As the adoption of the new TEN-T regulations by the EU Parliament sinks in, more points relevant to rail freight should be addressed. Those include,…
Dutch advisory body appeals to coalition negotiators: “Create level playing field”

The Dutch rail freight committee has presented a letter of appeal to government negotiators. In the letter, the committee requests the next government to take…
Out of sight, out of mind: the Netherlands falling behind on rail freight

The Netherlands desperately lack a vision for rail freight. That is the message of Hans-Willem Vroon, director of RailGood, a Dutch organisation promoting the interests…
Dutch government to provide 24 million in ERTMS subsidies

The Dutch government will provide subsidies amounting to 24 million euros for the adaptation of rail vehicles to level 2, baseline 3 or higher of…
Switzerland rolls out new ERTMS plan

The Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT) updated the country’s strategy for the deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS). The new programme…
The ERTMS dilemma: ‘some locomotives might not run up to 2026’

One of the hottest debates in the European rail freight sector is the deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) and its signalling…
EIB invests almost one billion euros in Czechia to improve railways

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will loan 992 million euros to the Czech Ministry of Finance “in support of a major railway upgrade”. This is…
New funds for ERTMS implementation in the Netherlands, but is it enough?

The European Commission (EC) has amended the Dutch scheme to implement ERTMS on with an additional injection of 21 million euros. With these new funds,…
EU Commission reactivates Czech rail scheme, this time it includes DAC too

The European Commission (EC) has reactivated a scheme to support rail interoperability in the Czech Republic over the next five years for 380 million euros.…