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Welcome to the Spring/Summer issue of 2025! As always, thank you to the expert voices across the rail industry who continue to contribute their insights and vision to Global Railway Review. Your work drives the conversations and innovations that are shaping the future of rail.
5 April 2010 | By Dr-Ing Stephan Freudenstein, Jia Liu and JuanJuan Ren
The Chinese railway dates back approximately 130 years. The first railway line, Wu-Song, was built in 1876 in Shanghai with a length of 14.5km and a track gauge of 762mm. The first railway built by Chinese engineers is the Jingzhang-Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou), finished between 1905 and 1909 with a…
4 April 2010 | By Jan Raczyński, Director of High-Speed Lines Office, PKP Polish Railway Lines
In recent years there has been considerable growth in high-speed rail. In many countries, the development of a high-speed rail system plays a key role in economic development and it is treated as an element to improve prosperity considering the great value of public procurement and increased attractiveness of the…
4 April 2010 | By Mike Blaquiere, Project Manager, Southern
Train operator Southern has introduced automatic ticket gates at some of its London stations to combat fare evasion, but as Mike Blaquiere, Southern’s Project Manager explains, the company has also experienced wider benefits than merely an increase in revenue. London Underground first introduced automatic ticket gates in the 1980s. At…
4 April 2010 | By James Abbott, Technical Editor, Global Railway Review
Railway electrification captures the zeitgeist of the 2010s. It addresses two of the world’s central concerns at this time: oil availability and carbon emissions. So despite pressures on public finances as a result of the economic recession, railway electrification continues to prove popular in Europe. ‘Peak oil’, the point in…
4 April 2010 | By Bernard Theischinger, Maschinenfabrik Liezen und Gieserei GESMBH
Company Spotlight: MASCHINENFABRIK LIEZEN UND GIESEREI GESMBH Q: Product quality is one of Maschinenfabrik Liezen und Gießerei GesmbH (MFL’s) essential objectives. How does MFL work to achieve this objective? A: For us, the most important aspect for achieving high product quality is having experienced and well educated employees. Our employees…
28 January 2010 | By Etienne Schouppe, Secretary of State for Mobility, Belgium
This year, Belgium will commemorate the 175th anniversary of the inauguration of the country’s first main line between Brussels and Malines.
28 January 2010 | By Sjaak Heijstek, Manager for Capacity Allocation Traffic, ProRail
In Issue 1 2009 of Global Railway Review, an article was published about how ProRail expects to realise a growth of 50% by applying a new approach. This approach is known as the Triple A. In this article, I will discuss the progress since January 2009, but I will first…
28 January 2010 | By Fernand Rippinger, Chief Executive Officer and Marc Polini, Chief Commercial Officer, CFL cargo
CFL cargo, created in October 2006, aims to offer customer-oriented pan-European door-to-door rail freight services, while creating shareholder value and adhering to high social, safety and environmental standards.
28 January 2010 | By Luc Vansteenkiste, Director General of Access to the Network, Infrabel
Infrabel, the Belgian railway infrastructure manager, is busy working on building a direct rail link between the Left and the Right Bank in the Port of Antwerp: the Liefkenshoek rail link. In mid-January 2010, the project company LOCORAIL NV started boring the first of two tunnel shafts. In a conversation…
28 January 2010 | By Dan Mandoc, ERTMS/GSM-R Project Manager, UIC
Over the last few years, the UIC has written many updates about the GSM-R situation in Europe for Global Railway Review and 2009 was a good year for GSM-R, despite the overall difficult economic environment. Finland is the latest country who has changed its colour on the UIC GSM-R implementation…
28 January 2010 | By Pascal Bertrand, QATS GSM-R Product Manager, Expandium
Because safety is a vital concern for all players in the rail industry, Expandium has designed QATS – a highly efficient troubleshooting solution enabling technical staff to detect network malfunctions early and correct them. With QATS, Expandium’s experts have met the challenge to display and monitor the performance of a…
28 January 2010 | By Rémi Bévot, GSM-R Project Director and Olivier Labourdette, GSM-R Project Manager, SNCF Engineering
Many railway operators have decided to implement ground-to-train radios on their networks in the fourth quarter of the 20th century, which was, for most of them, variants of a UIC specific analogue technology. In order to anticipate the upcoming obsolescence of this existing radio and having in mind the objective…
28 January 2010 | By Pierpaolo Di Labio, Business Development Manager, Transport Market, SELEX Communications SpA
Communications are one of the components that lead the train operating company to be efficient, secure and safe. Railway telecommunication systems have to work 24 hours a day and 365 days a year with a negligible downtime: therefore they must have an extremely high level of availability and reliability. Lives…
28 January 2010 | By Martijn Kuijpers, Director, Clear CinCom
There are important differences between traditional radio planning and the construction of a GSM-R network, explains GSM-R consultant Martijn Kuijpers. “The nature of GSM-R and elaborate government requirements make constructing a well optimised GSM-R radio network a very specific challenge.”
28 January 2010 | By Johann Garstenauer, Head of Railway Solutions, Nokia Siemens Networks
Today’s railway networks are undergoing a renaissance. With high-speed lines competing for much of the business of short haul and domestic air traffic, railways are attracting passengers at an ever growing rate. Modern digital communications technology is ready to support this transformation.
