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…
Signalling systems are essential to ensure safe train operations, but they are also key to enable optimal capacity use on railway lines. Almost half a…
In December 2025, the Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel announced the full implementation of the train control system ETCS along its mainline network. A real…
Rolling stock manufacturer Siemens Mobility has revealed that its Vectron Dual Mode locomotive has been authorised to operate across the border between Germany and Austria.
In the last days of 2025, the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) published its annual rail market report. RailFreight.com discussed some aspects of the findings…