1/2015

Spain is currently re-addressing its high speed line construction programme, in the light of the economic recession. There will be some inaugurations of new railways during 2015. But which lines will definitely be ready for traffic by the end of the year?

In early December 2014 the SBB works in Yverdon-les-Bains completed the modernisation of 460 084, the project having taken about a year to realise.

In this number of Railvolution we conclude our coverage of InnoTrans 2014. Our main focus here is on urban public transport, bogies, wagons, together with a look at a diverse assortment of rail-related components. We also provide a series of reports on locomotives which we were unable to incorporate in the first two parts of this report.

In R 6/14, p. 59, we reported on developments in the German authorisation procedures involving the batch of 12 two-car LINK DMUs destined for Länderbahn subsidiary Oberpfalzbahn. On 25 February 2015 Länderbahn announced that it had placed an order with Alstom for LINT 41 DMUs to replace the Oberpfalzbahn LINK DMUs, since they had still not been granted authorisation.

On 22 October 2014 the Slovakian government accepted Resolution 530/2014, entitled „Draft Government Proposals for Creation of a Financial, Economic and Social Package for Passenger Rail Travel in Slovakia”. The end result is that certain groups of passengers travelling in trains in public service obligation are entitled to free rail travel, the measures being implemented on 17 November 2014.