Rhinealpine Corridor Archives

March 27, 2021 | News

Eastern Rhine Valley line remains closed following landslide

The line was blocked by a landslide on March 15, with DB aiming to reopen the line by the end of April.

September 17, 2020 | Freight

Learning the lessons of Rastatt

Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.

October 10, 2018 | Freight

How cooperation can get rail freight flowing along the Rhine

Europe’s TEN-T rail corridors have a lot of potential to improve rail freight performance and win traffic from other modes. However, as Christoph Kaupat, strategy, research and international standards project officer with the EU Agency for Railways, argues, cooperation between neighbouring countries, particularly along the Rhine valley, needs to be improved to overcome bottlenecks and capacity problems.

February 15, 2016 | Signalling

Cross-border ERTMS: conquering the final frontier

With at least two sets of national rules and numerous location-specific technical considerations to contend with, cross-border ERTMS deployments can represent a daunting challenge for infrastructure managers. Keith Barrow looks at two key projects which are seeking to streamline international train movements on the Rhine-Alpine Corridor.

September 24, 2014 | Freight

Railfreight along the Rhine: gearing up for growth

Enhancement projects are underway along the Rhine corridor to upgrade rail infrastructure and terminal facilities, increasing capacity to meet the enormous growth in freight predicted at Rhine delta ports, Anitra Green reports from Germany.