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railtech.com | Thomas Wintle
“We are at tipping point… Concretely, we have two months to find a solution.” That’s the message from Jean-Pierre Farandou, the president of the SNCF, who warns that the French state-backed rail company must secure an additional one billion euros per year for infrastructure or face a serious German-style breakdown: “If we don’t decide now, it will be irreversible.” France needs to find an additional one billion euros per year for rail infrastructure from 2028, SNCF’s outgoing president has...
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3 weeks ago |
railtech.com | Thomas Wintle
Despite renationalisation in the UK, open-access expansion is entering a new phase as FirstGroup’s Lumo brand prepares to challenge legacy operators with a service between London and Scotland’s Stirling along Britain’s busiest mixed-traffic route. Alstom has secured a 50 million pound deal to upgrade and maintain the operator’s trains.
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railtech.com | Thomas Wintle
delay insurance Published on 04-06-2025 at 14:00 Since the start of this month, rail passengers in Hungary have been able to claim compensation for delayed trains under a new ‘delay insurance’ scheme rolled out by state-owned operator MÁV.
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railtech.com | Thomas Wintle
HSL-South’s undoing Published on 04-06-2025 at 11:00 The Netherlands’ flagship high-speed line is cracking under pressure – literally. And according to a frustrated reader of RailTech’s sister publication SpoorPro – a former engineer who worked on the project – it’s no accident.
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railtech.com | Thomas Wintle
Around the world Published on 03-06-2025 at 14:24 São Paulo will become the first city in Latin America – depending on how you define Latin America – to deploy ETCS Level 2, marking a big technological step in the region’s growing embrace of European train control systems. And French rail giant Alstom is steering the 1 billion Brazilian real (€180m) project.
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