Dieter
CAPTION: Barely three months after South Korea’s first high speed line opened, Korail is apparently faced with the prospect of replacing the fixed second class seats in its KTX trainsets, after passengers objected to the idea of travelling backwards. The first class vehicles were fitted with rotating seats from the outset. Dieter wonders whether the simplest option might be to rotate the whole train?
EUROPE: The EU Agency for Railways has launched ERA Railway Factsheets, giving what it calls ‘a comprehensive overview of the rail sector across European countries with one-click access’. Covering aspects such as transport statistics, railway organisations, rolling stock, infrastructure, safety, market structure, and the legal framework, ...
UK: ‘We in the rail sector must be objective and honest about what we are good at’, Network Rail Chief Executive Andrew Haines told a conference in Birmingham on October 3, as he reflected on how the industry can plot its way through the uncertainty of the post-Covid period.
EUROPE: Senior figures from across the UK rail sector came together at the Rail Partners with Ukraine event to hear how national railway Ukrzaliznytsia is keeping trains running under wartime conditions, and to raise money to fund food parcels for Ukrainian railway workers and their families. ...
