São Paulo airport EMU unveiled
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
BRAZIL: CRRC Qingdao Sifang has unveiled the first of eight eight-car Class 2500 electric...read more
GB Railfreight to reopen March sidings
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
UK: GB Railfreight has secured a lease for the disused March Up Yard rail sidings in Cambridgeshire...read more
Methanol wagon order
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:00:15 +0000
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co’s TikhvinChemMash is to supply 100 Type 15-6880 methanol tank wagons to...read more
Next-generation Acela trainsets take shape
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:08:38 +0000
USA: Alstom invited guests to its Hornell factory in New York state on June 12 to showcase the...read more
Railway supply industry news round-up
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
Head of the Russian Republic of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov officially reopened RM Rail’s...read more
Southeastern franchise extension confirmed
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:35:38 +0000
UK: The Department for Transport and the Govia joint venture of Go-Ahead (65%) and Keolis (35%)...read more
Transdev orders Regio-S-Bahn Bremen Flirts
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:25:26 +0000
GERMANY: Transdev subsidiary NordWestBahn has awarded Stadler a €100m contact to supply 16 Flirt...read more
PPP partners to develop Utah freight railway
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000
USA: Proposals for the construction of a 160 km freight railway to serve the Uinta Basin...read more
Lausanne station to be rebuilt
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:02:17 +0000
SWITZERLAND: The Federal Office for Transport has approved plans for Swiss Federal Railways to...read more
TAZARA seeks opportunities with the private sector
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:00:00 +0000
AFRICA: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board is seeking to develop open access operations to...read more
UK railway news round-up
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
42 Technology has equipped Porterbrook’s Class 319 technology demonstrator EMU with its Adaptable...read more
Ferrocarril Central modernisation project gets underway
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000
URUGUAY: Passenger services in the Montevideo area and freight services from the capital to the...read more
Brazilian line reopens after safety shutdown
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:30:00 +0000
BRAZIL: Mining giant Vale resumed regular operation of freight services on the Belo Horizonte...read more
Sign language app for deaf passengers
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
UK: ScotRail and InterpreterNow have introduced an app designed to make it easier for railway staff...read more
Bombardier presents fastest interlocking
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:43:35 +0000
INTERLOCKING: Bombardier Transportation presented what it says is the fastest computer-based...read more
Thales presents big data software at UITP
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:39:11 +0000
THALES: Thales has presented two tools for big data analytics at the UITP Global Public Transport...read more
Dodoma commuter rail study commissioned
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:40:12 +0000
TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp has awarded an international consortium a €2·5m nine-month...read more
Go-Ahead, Abellio and National Express take over German operating contracts
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:54:53 +0000
GERMANY: A number of passenger services transferred to new operators on June 9, including routes in...read more
Virgin Trains open access service to ‘show the rest of the industry how it can be done’
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:03:26 +0000
UK: A partnership of Virgin Group, Stagecoach, SNCF and Alstom has applied to the Office of Rail...read more
GWR prepares for December timetable recast
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:00:00 +0000
UK: More than three-quarters of all services operated by Great Western Railway are set to change...read more
Operail concerned about infrastructure charges
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
ESTONIA: State owned logistics company Operail has reported a net profit of €2·6m for the first...read more
CRRC launches ETCS-compatible signalling
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:32:34 +0000
SIGNALLING: CRRC Zhuzhou presented its SigThemis signalling at the UITP World Public Transport...read more
Russian rolling stock innovation centre planned
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:48:58 +0000
RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a rolling stock engineering innovation centre was signed by...read more
Stadler sees success on six axles
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:05:00 +0000
EUROPE: Stadler says that its family of six-axle diesel, electric and bi-mode Eurodual locomotives...read more
Tambo Springs terminal ‘will change the face of Gauteng’
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000
SOUTH AFRICA: The Southern Palace Joint Venture Consortium has won a 20-year concession to design,...read more
Passengers prevail over freight in capacity allocation dispute
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:00:00 +0000
SWITZERLAND: The need to provide a minimum level of network capacity for freight operators should...read more
World rail freight news round-up
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
Polish operator Industrial Division has ordered five Siemens Vectron locomotives for use by its...read more
New Mexico Rail Runner Express PTC deployment contract
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
USA: Wabtec has been awarded a $55m contract to implement Positive Train Control on the 160 km New...read more
ZSSK RegioPanter EMU rolled out
Sat, 08 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0000
SLOVAKIA: Škoda Transportation has rolled out the first of the Class 660 electric multiple-units...read more
Russian Railways orders high speed trains
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:04:54 +0000
RUSSIA: Russian Railways has signed a €1·1bn order for a further 13 Velaro RUS high speed trains...read more
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