2 Jan 2012

Final Deadline for the old Hermes IP Addresses

The GPH decided at its Brussels meeting to stop routing of the old Hermes IP addresses (171.30.36.x) by the end of January 2012. All the remaining "old" traffic flows need to migrate to the new HIT...
7 Oct 2011

HIT Rail Strategy Event at EP

Hit Rail, the provider of data transmission services to the European rail community, is facilitating a major conference for the stakeholders of the European railways. The objective is to provide an...
7 Oct 2011

Ukrainian Railways connected to Hermes

UZ, the Ukrainian Railways are connected to the Hermes VPN with new site in Kiev. In a first phase, the link is realised over the Internet gateway, final solution will use 2Mbps dedicated line with...
9 Jun 2011

HIT Rail launches a New Strategy.

HIT Rail launches a New Strategy to support Modernisation of the European Railways and strengthen mutual Collaboration of the European Railways and strengthen mutual Collaboration. A number of...
17 May 2011

New Contacts to BT's Hermes VPN Support Desk

BT have moved their Hermes VPN fault reporting and support site from Amsterdam to Hungary. From immediate effect, there are new contact numbers and e-mails - please see the restricted section of this...
3 Mar 2011

Lokomotion goes in production

Lokomotion and DB Schenker Rail DE are going to start production of the train preannonce application (A30) over the Hermes network. First messages shall be exchanged for trains from Italy to Muenchen...
3 Jan 2011

Best Wishes for the new Year 2011

The HIT Rail Team wishes all the best to all our railway customers and partners in the new year 2011!
3 Jan 2011

Athens Hermes Site Terminated

The Hermes Site in Athens has been terminated by the end of the year 2010. There has never been any application traffic because realisation of the passenger reservation system for OSE (Greek Railways...
18 Nov 2010

Madrid access splitted

The split of Madrid Hermes VPN site between RENFE and ADIF was successfully completed on 15th November by BT/HIT Rail and the Renfe/Adif teams. It allows transparent sharing of the Hermes access in...
1 Nov 2010

HIT Rail Strategy presented at 14th UIC eBusiness Conference

HIT Rail strategy team members presented main findings and conclusions of the company strategy study at the 14th UIC eBusiness Conference in Paris. HIT Rail is proposing additional services above the...