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Yesterday CPKC and CN trains in Cananda came to a halt, when a deadline for an agreement with unions passed. Both companies issued lock-out notices to workers. Services were already reduced over the last few days in anticipation of a possible shutdown. Shipments of perishable goods and hazardous...

Due to wild fires VIA Rail has suspended the western section of the Canadian until Augst 2nd Excerpt from the service status page The city of Jasper was badly hit by the fires (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyj423n2jdgo)

In 2020 an overhead wire maintenance train (aka TVT or DB class 711.1) caught fire. This resulted in its breaks failing and it rolled along the Schwarzwaldbahn for 20 kilometers. Two attempts to stop it using brake shoes did not work. It was stopped in the end by directing (and derailing it) in...

A train broke down on the Colgone-Frankfurt highspeed line yesterday. So far all attempts to get it moving again have failed. The break down resuls in single tracking for parts of the line, cancellation of services and detours using the old Rhine valley line. The latter adds at least an hour of...

Maybe this is related. In the Fiche Horaire section of the TER PACA website, there is "Travaux Intercités Marseille - Bordeaux du mardi 7 mai au dimanche 12 mai 2024" schedule listed for them Marseille-Nimes-Montpellier line. It shows some trains being replaced by buses. The TER Occitanie site...

SNCF Reseau provides some more details about project "Modernisation de la ligne Paris-Lyon (LGV+)" https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/travaux/modernisation-ligne-paris-lyon-lgv https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/projets-et-travaux-majeurs/ligne-lgv-paris-lyon-un-projet-innovant Important elements...

When the LGV Est towards Metz/Strasbourg went into service, announcements were made for a while when the train had reached "son vitesse commerciale de 320 km/h". Apart from that, I cannot recall anything simular.

And here the final parts of the series Trains and Foliage - Part VII: Quebec City Trains and Foliage - Part VIII: Charlevoix Trains and Foliage - Part IX: Toronto+Kitchener/Waterloo I hope you liked it. Cheers Charly

A few more pictures from the trip: Trains and Foliage - Part IV: Smiths Falls Trains and Foliage - Part V: St Constant+Montreal Trains and Foliage - Part VI: Jonquière+Chicoutimi

Hello, last automn I spent a few weeks in Eastern Canada to enjoy the Indian Summer. I went to Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City and Toronto, but also into rural Quebec and the Charlevoix region. As I did the whole trip by rail (and bus), a took some rail-related pictures :-). I have started to...

The membership of the train drivers union GDL has voted for strikes. After two one day strikes in the last few weeks, multi-day strikes are likely from Jan 8. The union leader had stated recently that no strike will take place until Jan 7. Strikes should/will be announced 48 hours in advance.

The Riedbahn (Line Frankfurt-Biblis-Mannheim) will be closed for three weeks beginning of January. DB is doing preparatory work ahead of the 6 month closure that will take place later this year (when the line will be given a complete makeover). As the aternate routes (via Heidelberg/Darmstadt or...

German IT magazine c't presented the website Stations and transfers a few weeks ago. A catalan engineer has produced 3D models of metro stations around Europe.

The highspeed line between Cologne and Frankfurt Airport will be closed 25.11.-1.12. for switch replacement works. Some trains will be diverted along the Rhine (resulting in an additional hour of travel time). Some Cologne-Basel trains will be cancelled

SNCF is already selling tickets for some direct services to Germany. Yesterday, I managed to catch a 39€ fare for Karlruhe-Paris at the beginning of January. (I wanted to register a sales notification and was positively surprises that the train I intended to use was already open for booking).

In an earlier press release (that I cannot find anymore) the SBB noted two major obstacles to divert freight trains along the old route loading gauge in the old tunnel is smaller, thus limiting which trains could be diverted only one path per hour and direction available during daytime. These...

No need to rebook (even if a local train along you route is cancelled). Just take another train. If you want to be on the safe side pack a printout of thr email. Usually, it suffices to tell the staff you are on their train, because train X was cancelled. If this was somewhere in the vicinity...

In contrast to the last strike were tickets could be used for several days after the end of the strike, this is not possible this time! Tickets for the travel period 14.05-16.05. can only be used up to and including 14.05. Quoting from https://www.bahn.com/en/contact/special-goodwill: This is...

Salery increases and working conditions. Germal law only allows for strikes in labor relation disputes. Unlike France, were political strikes are possible.

Two unions have announced a strike for Monday 27 March. The DB has announced yesterday that there will be _no_ long distance (ICE, IC, ...) services what so ever on that day. Regional services will also heavily affected as the strike will affect the DB and several regional operators. Disruptions...