There was an article recently that highlighted some of the new trains that Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), the new Italian train service branded as Italo were going to be using.  The train line is part owned by Ferrari and you can certainly see a hint of the cars in the newly released trains, they look pretty cool.

I can't say that this is particularly related to what we do here at SilverRail, but one of the joys of working at SilverRail is that people send you all sorts of crazy stuff that relates to trains!  And the video below is one of those things.

While presenting at the Travel Technology Europe show in London this week, our CEO Aaron Gowell, who was recently named one of the top 25 most influential executives in the travel industry, had a chance to sit down with Lee Hayhurst from Travolution to talk about what we are doing here at SilverRail.

Stephanie Weaver has been with us here at SilverRail since the beginning.  In classic start-up style, Stephanie has a role that involves wearing a lot of hats, and so does bits and pieces of everything!  Stephanie helps our new customers get the technology integrated into their system with her project management and technical advice, and also helps us manage the relationships with some of the carriers, in particular Amtrak (US) and Via Rail (Canada) helping the flow of information between the carriers and our distribution partners. 

Stephanie is one of those people that keeps everything working - we'd be lost without her.  Thank you again for all your work Steph!

Last week it was announced that an agreement has been reached to build a new high speed rail between France and Italy.  

Next week, SilverRail will be presenting a workshop at the Travel Technology Europe Trade Show taking place at Earls Court in London next Tuesday.

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently signed a deal with Renfe, the Spanish rail operator, to help distribute tickets both domestically and internationally through our distribution partners, available for all travel sellers, including Travel Management Companies (TMCs), Self Booking Tools and Online Travel Agents (OTAs).

We recently came across this article helping expats try to negotiate the Chinese rail network during the Chinese Spring Festival Period.  It's brilliant.

A telling quote from the article that gives an insight into the pure scale of the issue that the Chinese infrastructure is trying to cope with. 

The Worldwatch Institute recently released a study into the impacts and coverage of High Speed Rail across the world.  A summary press release has proved to be a really interesting overview of their findings and has provided some really interesting stats on high-speed rail.  Some of those include:

This afternoon, Business Travel News has announced its annual list of the "Most Influencial Executives of 2011" in Business Traval, and Aaron Gowell, our co-founder and CEO of SilverRail Technologies was named on the list!