June 13, 2013
COMPARED with the spiralling Dutch-Belgian Fyra calamity, which continues to dominate the news, the first anniversary of a cross-border service between Austria and Italy is unlikely to generate many headlines. But the Villach – Udine...June 10, 2013
JUNE 3 was a cause for celebration within most of the Argentinean railway community when the government announced its decision to revoke the two 30-year railfreight concessions held by Latin American Logistics (ALL) due to...June 03, 2013
THE operation of cross-border rail services, whether freight or passenger, has always been rail's Achilles' heel. Trucks, buses and cars pass from one country to another either without stopping where borders are open or often...May 01, 2013
LISTENING to some of the frankly rather depressing presentations at a railfreight seminar last month in Vienna, I started to think that it is a minor miracle that rail carries as much freight as it...April 03, 2013
ONE of the most striking features of last month's EurasiaRail exhibition in Istanbul was the obvious confidence of exhibitors in the future of Turkey's railway industry, and the domestic and international suppliers at the show...April 01, 2013
THE new Chinese government has finally done what many regarded as inevitable: dissolving of the Ministry of Railways (MOR). Its administrative functions are being transferred to the Ministry of Transport while the commercial activity of...March 27, 2013
THE "Wild Wild West" of marketing it might be, but social media's rapidly-growing influence in societies all over the world means that transport operators should ignore it at their peril.Facebook now has over 1 billion...March 22, 2013
CANADIAN aficionados of passenger rail developments in other G8 nations are a glum bunch right now. Via Rail Canada, Canada's federally-owned and funded long-distance passenger operator, is shrinking rapidly while the other seven member countries...February 27, 2013
WHAT a mess! I'm referring to the total collapse of Fyra's high-speed service between Amsterdam and Brussels. The immediate cause is problems encountered with the V250 trains during snow and ice, which led to a...February 12, 2013
SOME of the brightest and best minds in heavy-haul railway engineering gathered in Delhi last week for the 10th International Heavy Haul Association (IHHA) conference. And while many will return when the organisation next convenes...
