The new German government has approved its first budget. For rail freight, the key question on the table were subsidies for track access charges (TAC).…
Richard Lutz, the head of Germany’s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB), will soon leave his post. The German transport ministry on 14 August announced…
The renovation of the Berlin-Hamburg main line started at the beginning of August and will keep the section closed for the next nine months, significantly…
Germany is working on a major overhaul of its rail network, the so-called “Generalsanierung”. Its third modernisation project is due to start tomorrow, 1 August,…
The German government decided to reform the pricing system for track access charges (TAC), which are a problem for many rail freight operators. Instead of…
Oana Gherghinescu, the new executive director of the European Union Agency for Railways, has expressed her support for a freeze of TSIs for longer periods…
Eight German rail associations have responded positively to Germany’s 2025 draft budget. They call the budget, together with the country’s special infrastructure fund, “a good…
The Generalsanierung, the German overhaul of its railway network, may last about twice as long as originally planned – until the mid-2030s. Infrastructure manager DB…
The German rail infrastructure manager DB InfraGO has released its rail infrastructure condition report for 2024. With the outdated rail network in dire straits, any…
The German people elected their new government, with the Christian Democrats (CDU) getting the largest slice of the pie, as expected, and now working to…