EIM Newsletter

Felipe González and Roland Heinisch receive European Railway Award

On 3rd February 2010, the European Railway Award 2010 was presented to former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González for political achievements and to former Deutsche Bahn Board Member Roland Heinisch for technical achievements. Since 2007, the European rail sector has honoured outstanding achievements in the development of competitive and environmentally sustainable rail transport. The European Railway Award 2010 attracted more than 450 guests from all over Europe, including high-level politicians and transport stakeholders. Read More...

Goods get on the train: a one way journey to sustainable transport

Now that the Copenhagen summit is over and apparently the worst of the economic crisis has passed us by, it is high time for political talk on winning the fight against climate change and re-launching the European economy to be replaced by concrete actions. Transport should be a top priority, as it is the only sector in which greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise (by 26% in the EU-15 between 1990 and 2005), while in all other industry sectors they fell. Read More...

ProRail’s strategy to fight Rolling Contact Fatigue

In 2000, the Hatfield accident showed the world that things had changed in the wheel-rail interface in the UK, with Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) being recognised as a new phenomenon. It became clear that the management of RCF needed more attention, and that research was needed to understand its causes. In the same period regular ultrasound inspections in the Netherlands revealed a rise in RCF. Read More...

EIM launches Annual Report at European Railway Award 2010

EIM used the occasion of the European Railway Award 2010 to present its newly published 2009 Annual Report to an audience of leading figures from the rail industry and European politics, including European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani. Read More...