GERMAN Rail (DB) confirmed following an extraordinary meeting of its supervisory board in Berlin on May 4 that it will proceed with the sale of a minority stake in its international passenger business Arriva and logistics subsidiary DB Schenker, while DB Mobility Logistics (DB ML) will be merged the holding company DB AG.
GERMAN infrastructure manager DB Network is planning to upgrade the 3.1km line on Swiss territory between the German border and the bridge across the River Rhine in Basle at a cost €273m.
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.
GERMAN Rail (DB) is one of the world's biggest transport organisations with nearly 297,000 employees (64% of them in Germany) and group turnover of around €40bn in 2015. Yet despite its size and breadth of activities, DB faces an uncertain future - largely driven by changes in its "home" market.
THE conclusions of a feasibility study into a high-speed line linking Dresden and Prague were presented on January 14 by Saxony's state transport minister Mr Martin Dulig.
MEASURES to ensure non-discriminatory access to Germany's rail market and changes to the track access charging regime are being proposed under new draft legislation approved by the federal cabinet on January 13.
RDC Deutschland, the German subsidiary of Railroad Development Corporation, United States, has begun trial operation of its new Autozug Sylt car and lorry carrying trains on the 39.3km Niebüll - Westerland (Sylt) line in Schleswig Holstein.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has announced the outcome of months of strategic review, assisted by consulting firm McKinsey, confirming a programme of measures to tackle the company's worsening financial performance.
RAILFREIGHT capacity on lines into the port of Hamburg will be increased significantly on December 13 following the completion of infrastructure upgrades which will enable maximum train lengths to be increased from 740m to 835m.
THE German subsidiary of Railroad Development Corporation (RDC), United States, has received a small boost to its plans to launch a car carrying service linking the North German island of Sylt (which only has a rail connection to the rest of Germany) with the mainland.