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Austrian Federal Railways announced today they bought Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland GmbH, so Go-Ahead's regional railway operations in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. The price is being kept secret. ÖBB already tried to enter the German market with their subsidiary "Allegra" which...

From Sunday 1 October 7:08, the first new battery train of the modern generation will enter service in Germany: on the RB76 line Kiel Hbf - Kiel-Oppendorf, operated by erixx Holstein. Nah.sh, the state's rail authority announced this on Instagram. Considering it's a very short line of 11 minutes...

Hi, just a small question: a friend of mine is travelling to London soon and I want to give them the two oyster cards I have (we don't live in the UK). Both are registered to my TfL account I registered a few years ago and thus to my name and address. Can they use my Oyster Cards even though...

Today the EC announced they would support 10 cross-border rail projects, that responded to a request for proposals for support. These include: - Vienna - Budapest - Oradea/Arad (Hungarian Ministry of Transport) - Germany - Denmark - Sweden with various services: SJ night train Stockholm-Berlin...

On the one hand, the transport ministers of the states and their federal counterpart generally agreed on introducing a 49€ ticket as a successor to the 9€ ticket "as soon as possible". The states altogether and the federal level are supposed to give 1.5 billion € each for that. There are no...

Due to staff shortage, all S-Bahn lines (S11, S12, S13/19) in Cologne have been cancelled until Monday. The S6 has already been cancelled within Cologne since 28 June until 5 August. Also, the S8 and S9 (which don't run in Cologne but elsewhere in NRW) and a number of regional services are at...

Three passenger services in northern Brandenburg are very likely to be axed by the end of the year: RB63 between Joachimsthal and Templin (27.5 km, 5 intermediate stops, operator: NEB): This was only reactivated in 2018 on a trial basis (after having closed in 2006), and the state says with...

Today, the main part of the €1.5b "Kombilösung" project, the tram tunnel under Kaiserstraße and Ettlinger Straße, opens. The controversial tunnel has been subject to two referenda and was under construction for almost 12 years and planned in various iterations since the 1980s. For reference...

Quite a discussion in German rail circles at the moment: Abellio in Germany will rather sooner than later be a thing of the past. Apparently, Abellio's German operations make a loss and ultimately, the Dutch government (personified as finance minister Wopke Hoekstra) doesn't want to throw Dutch...

The main line through the Ruhrgebiet between Essen and Duisburg may be heavily disrupted for months. Yesterday, a lorry carrying 35.000 liters of fuel crashed into a car right under a railway bridge, resulting in a huge fire (disrupting at the same time the Ruhrgebiet's main motorway A40)...

The German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure published its new very ambitious rail strategy today. It consists of various documents (all in German) with important-sounding names like "Rail pact", "Master plan rail transport" and "Germany takt", which will -- according to...

Hello! I am wondering, why Britain's tram systems seem to be so reluctant to use line numbers (1, 2, 3 or A, B, C). From what I understand, only Sheffield differentiates its tram services, by using colours. Birmingham, Edinburgh and Blackpool of course don't really need them; but why don't the...

Due to what seems to be financial problems, Städtebahn Sachsen has suspended all its services (diesel lines around Dresden: Dresden to Kamenz, Dresden to Königsbrück, Heidenau to Altenberg, and Pirna to Sebnitz via Neustadt) on Thursday, without offering replacement buses and redirecting their...

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has announced its plan to revamp Germany’s railways by introducing the “Deutschland-Takt”, i.e. a clock-face timetable for the whole of country. It is supposed to combine the different Länder Taktfahrpläne and a new one for...

Does the restriction of a Groupsave discounted off-peak return to London travelcard zones, that all people have to travel together, also apply for the Travelcard portion of the ticket, so when travelling on the Tube in London, or only on the rail-only return portion?

Hello there. I wondered what the official definition of what constitutes the City Line out of Liverpool Lime Street station is. Is it generally all lines and services out of the station, that serve other stations within the Merseytravel area or are there specific City Line services distinct from...

Hello all, I am writing a paper discussing the privatisation of British Rail and its effects. I am currently searching for customer satisfaction statistics of the British Rail era (preferable the later years shortly before privatisation, but generally, anything would be good) that I could...

Hi, in September, I am on a class trip to England. We will be staying in Canterbury, but we want to visit London on one day. We are 45 people (all 16 or over) and we would like to travel in London with the Tube too (zones 1 and 2). I am currently trying to figure out the cheapest fares there...

Leo Express intends to run loads more international services from December this year. They applied for paths at the Czech Office for Access to Transport Infrastructure for the following corridors: Prague-Berlin (D), 6 trains daily Prague-Brno-Bratislava (SK), 5 trains daily Prague-Brno-Vienna...

As far as I see, this has not yet been covered anywhere here. On 10 December 2017, the small country of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg, German: Luxembur ) opened its new capital tramway system and also two new railway stations (Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg and Howald) and the funicular that...