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After 17 years of construction and building costs totalling almost €11 billion, the big day finally arrived at the beginning of June 2016: the inauguration of the 57km-long Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland which attracted much international attention highlighting the European dimension of centennial projects of this kind. Together with…
22 April 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided funding for a €250 million upgrade of Poland’s railway infrastructure along the TEN-T North Sea–Baltic Corridor.
7 April 2016 | By Nedim Begovic, SEETO
Ahead of his article in Global Railway Review Issue 3 2016, Nedim Begovic – Transport Planning Manager at the South East Europe Transport Observatory (SEETO) provides a quick overview here of the latest developments of the Core Regional Transport Network MoU...
23 March 2016 | By Sulev Loo, Chairman of the Management Board – General Director of Estonian Railways Ltd.
On 5 November 2015 railways in Estonia celebrated their 145th anniversary. Over the course of nearly one and a half centuries, Estonia has seen various governments in power and different principles, technology and tools employed in railway construction. With some important repairs already finished, Sulev Loo, Chairman of the Management…
8 December 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission (EC) have announced an €82 million investment package for Kosovo railway modernisation.
9 November 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The European Commission has launched the second call for proposals of the Connecting Europe Facility allocating €7.6 billion to finance key transport projects.
13 July 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The 28 member states that make up the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) coordination committee, have endorsed a €13.1 billion EU transport investment plan put forward by the European Commission in June 2015.
23 June 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The two day transport conference known as TEN-T Days, organised by the European Commission and Latvian Presidency, aims to close the gap between Member States’ transport networks.
4 June 2015 | By Dan Tok – Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic
As a result of a key decision adopted in the early-1990s to modernise the Czech railway network, the construction plan of the rail transit corridors will be implemented by 2020. It was determined that four rail transit corridors were to be featured on the railway network, establishing the most important…
23 April 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
A joint venture has been appointed to establish the new Czech high speed rail project part of Trans European Transport Network’s Orient/East Med core corridor.
31 March 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
The European Union’s TEN-T Programme has provided 1 million Euros of funding for a study preparing the construction of a new rail link between Münchendorf and Wampersdorf (via Ebreichsdorf) in Austria.
20 February 2015 | By Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
The EU's TEN-T Programme will co-finance with almost €3.5 million preparatory studies for a cross-border train and bus service linking Belfast in Northern Ireland to the rest of UK and neighbouring countries...
20 January 2015 | By The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
The EU's TEN-T Programme will co-finance with over €6 million studies preparing the construction of a new two-track rail line between Linz and Wels and between Salzburg and Steindorf/Straβwalchen in Austria, to increase the capacity of the existing line and improve the efficiency of traffic flows...
18 December 2014 | By The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
The EU's TEN-T Programme will co-fund with over €550,000 a study on developing the railway connection between Maribor, Slovenia's second largest city, and Šentilj near the Austrian border...
21 November 2014 | By INEA
The EU's TEN-T Programme will invest almost €2 million in development studies for the capacity increase of the high speed rail line connecting Paris and Lyon in France. It is planned to increase the line's frequency to 14 trains per hour at peak time in 2020 and reach 16 trains…
