Rhine-Alpine News
14.12.2023
Partial reopening of rail link between France and Italy
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After the Maurienne Valley rockslide on August 27, 2023, SNCF Voyageurs announced an alternative passenger service between France and Italy from January 10 to March 24. Buses will bypass the impacted area.
Customers can now travel between France and Italy with one round journey every day until the service is fully restored, instead of three.
A TGV INOUI from Paris to Saint Jean de Maurienne, a bus to Oulx to skirt the damaged stretch, and another TGV to Turin and Milan make up the service.
Jean-François Ancora, CEO of SNCF Voyages Italia stated “The restoration of this rail link is crucial for us to ensure continuity and the quality of service that remains at the heart of our mission in serving the regions,”
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SBB receives green light for automatic brake testing
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SBB’s automatic brake tester has received type clearance from the Federal Office of Transport, marking another step in rail freight automation and digitalization. This lets SBB Cargo enter the digital age.
This system has been worked on since 2015 by SBB Cargo and its Partners Rail Cargo Austria, and PJM. SBB Cargo is the first rail freight company to have developed this technically mature and perfectly verifiable solution, which will now be approved and trialled in operation over the next few months. The system will be extended to other transport operations in the course of 2024.
The new system enables considerable time savings – whereas in the past a shunting specialist had to manually inspect each individual brake on a train up to 500 meters long, now it can be done from the comfort of the driver’s cab in about five minutes.
Subsidy Scheme for Electrification of Barges
Picture by Erwin van der Linden
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