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Data of the week: Public companies are on the retreat in European rail freight

  • Guest authors
  • March 25, 2026
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State-owned companies are playing an ever smaller role in the European rail freight industry. New market entrants are proving themselves to be worthy competitors. At…

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Signalling is not the only lever. Why operational innovation can’t wait for ERTMS

  • Guest authors
  • March 23, 2026
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Decades of debate about signalling systems have framed rail’s capacity crisis as an infrastructure problem. But the internet taught us that the most transformative capacity…

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740-metre trains have shown themselves to be surprisingly divisive

  • Guest authors
  • March 20, 2026
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Some time ago, RailFreight.com published an opinion piece taking a rarely heard perspective. It argued against the urgency of 740-metre trains in Europe. RailFreight.com and…

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Middle East war casts long shadow over UK rail freight operations

  • Simon Walton
  • March 20, 2026
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Is Britain’s rail freight sector in a state of readiness? Probably yes, but they don’t call it a supply chain for nothing. The links between…

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‘Rail won’t replace ocean freight’ amid Middle East chaos

  • Marco Raimondi
  • March 19, 2026
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The war launched by Israel and the US against Iran last month has completely shaken up the supply chain, especially with the recent closure of…

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New EU state aid guidelines increase coverage to 90%

  • Marco Raimondi
  • March 19, 2026
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The European Commission (EC) recently adopted the new Land and Multimodal Transport Guidelines, which will replace the 2008 Railway Guidelines on state aid rules to…

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‘DAC installation might cost less than 4 euros per day’

  • Marco Raimondi
  • March 18, 2026
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The financial aspect of the deployment of the Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) remains somewhat of a mystery when it comes to how much it will…

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Data of the week: A review of the European and Swiss approaches to wheel safety

  • Guest authors
  • March 18, 2026
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About two months ago, the Swiss Federal Office for Transport (FOT) indicated that it would stick to its own version of wagon wheel safety rules…

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Spain’s key rail tunnel to France to close for up to seven weeks

  • Guest authors
  • March 13, 2026
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Rail freight traffic between France and Spain is again set to be significantly disrupted as a result of the closure of the Rubi Tunnel, near…

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When the fire is not the railway’s fault

  • Simon Walton
  • March 13, 2026
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It has been almost a week since the devastating blaze adjacent to Glasgow Central Station forced the indefinite closure of Scotland’s busiest rail hub. Passenger…

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