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I just read an article in the last edition of the French railways magazine "rail passion", explaining that French railways are currently testing a new signaling system that will allow two trains to share the same track in stations, as a way to increase the capacity of heavily congested stations...

Hi all, going to New York for 10 days (2 days of travel included) next month, any recommendations ? Not a pure trainfan trip, wife is coming along, but she's open to a few rail experiences. We already know we will join a tour of Grand Central terminal. I certainly want to see Penn Station as...

I’m just back from a city trip to Madrid (not meant to be train-oriented) where we have used the train (cercanias) for a daily excursion to El Escorial. Noticed two "strange" things : From Madrid to nearly Pinar de Las Rosas we ran right-hand then just before the station the two tracks ran...

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Not so long ago à belgian magazine stated that the 15 I6Bc cars that SNCB sold to an Eastern European railway were again operational and used in revenue service. It didn't give any more details. Does anyone in the audience know anything about that ?

A tunnel collapsed on the Luxembourg northern line, between Kautenbach and Clervaux. This happened during à line possession and there are no casualties. https://lequotidien.lu/a-la-une/impressionnant-eboulement-dans-un-tunnel-ferroviaire-du-luxembourg/ Repairs are expected to take several...

https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2022/03/03/sanctions-or-not-these-companies-stop-transit-through-russia/?gdpr=deny 1) If businesses find an alternative, not sure they will come back once (if) the crisis is over... 2) Southern alternative is mentioned, but the capacité isn’t there...

This will be the new HLE 17 series. 1500V & 3000V =, 15 kV ~ 16,7Hz, 25 kV ~ 50 Hz. Ca. 6000 kW, 200 km/h. Fitted with ETCS 2 plus legacy signaling systems for Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Germany. 24 copies plus options for 26 more. Will be TRAXX P200 MS3. Question : does that loco...

https://twitter.com/jbenedictbrown/status/1329758480241201152 Looks like we will have soon the possibility to go to Helsinki without taking a boat...

Following www.seat61.com, there are now reports of rail travelers coming from western europe that were stopped by russian police at the belarus-russia border. So finally the RZD trains from Paris, Nice, and Berlin are not suitable for westerners to enter Russia anymore. I hope that will be...

Tourist questions being increasingly popular here apparently, here's mine : I'll be in Porto for a week during the second half of april. With my wife, not explicitely train-oriented, but we'll be flying there so probably no car at all - or just for one day or two - and therefore heavy reliance...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-train/israel-opens-high-speed-rail-link-between-tel-aviv-airport-and-jerusalem-idUSKCN1M520E Inauguration of the "high speed" line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

I'm organizing a railway tour of two days for one of my sons and his wife, end of January. The idea is to fly between Brussels and Zurich and back (no enough time for full length train travel) and from Zurich, travel to Milano over the Bernina line, and come back the day after via the Gotthard...

Infrabel, the state owned company responsible for the railway infrastructure in Belgium, just launched its open data web site : https://opendata.infrabel.be/pages/home/ It contains, among others, all the data needed to map the belgian network, and also the real time of passage of every scheduled...