While German Rail (DB) is performing well financially, it still faces some tough challenges as it deals with threats to its existence as a fully-integrated railway and copes with the aftermath of past misjudgements. DB's CEO Dr Rüdiger Grube (pictured) reveals in an exclusive interview with David Briginshaw how the railway is addressing these issues.

BERLIN Brandenburg Transport Authority (VBB) has begun tendering for the operation of the Ring Line of the Berlin S-Bahn network. This is the first of three planned concessions for the S-Bahn, and covers 9.4 million train-km per year on lines S8, S41, S42, S46, and S47.

BERLIN Transport (BVG) has appointed Stadler Pankow to supply two pre-production metro trains as part of a programme to modernise the city's small-profile U-Bahn fleet.

BERLIN Transport Authority (BVG) has exercised an option with Bombardier for an additional 39 Flexity Berlin low-floor LRVs. The latest contract is worth €134m and takes the number of LRVs ordered from the 2006 framework agreement for 206 vehicles to 142.

THE SUPERVISORY board of Berlin Transport (BVG) today approved plans to begin procurement of a new generation train for the small-profile U-Bahn lines and a further batch of Bombardier Flexity Berlin low-floor LRVs.

THE long-suffering passengers of the Berlin S-Bahn, who have been plagued by years of train disruption and cancellation caused by poor train maintenance, can at last look forward to

THE Berlin Senate has decided to tender the operation of part of the S-Bahn network due to long-running performance problems that have affected the existing operator DB Regio.