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Indian Railways is set to acquire modern electrical multiple units (EMUs) with a maximum operating speed of 130 kmph to 150 kmph. The EMUs will be used for running premium Shatabdi/Rajdhani trains, without any additional expenditure on existing track and...

Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown has visited Edinburgh Haymarket to see the station's £25 million transformation first hand. The project, which is part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme and will include an integrated train, tram, bus and taxi transport hub,...

DB Schenker Rail has added a second weekly rail freight service between the UK and Poland to strengthen trading links between the two countries. The new service set off  from Barking on its maiden journey to Wroclaw shortly before midnight...

Well, that was a surprise. Who did we find right by the entrance of hall 22 at InnoTrans? There with an imposing open plan, two storey construction was our very own Network Rail. Dynamic rail images formed the backdrop of the stand, showing people exactly what Network Rail does and the projects they’ve delivered and [...]

Forget HS2. The next big set of railway projects in the UK will be the mass electrification of the Great Western, the Midland Main Line, the Welsh valleys, a major freight route running north from Southampton and large portions of the North West. The first high-output electrification train is under construction in Germany, and Network [...]

We are operating more trains and moving more passengers and freight than ever before and our asset performance is at an all time high. We are reducing the number of incidents that affect train performance as well as our operating costs while undertaking record levels of renewals and we have a large and expanding programme [...]

Police have released an e-fit image of a man who was struck by a train and killed between Tonbridge and Paddock Wood stations last month. Officers were called to the line close to Postern Lane, Tonbridge, at 7.10am on September...

Network Rail has released a new video showing a selection of near misses at level crossings around Britain. The footage shows drivers smashing through barriers and pedestrians narrowly avoiding being struck by trains after ignoring stop signals. Yesterday (October 9) Network...

Britain has largely forgotten that locomotives can usefully pull passenger trains. With most of the TOCs almost exclusively using DMUs and EMUs in various configurations, the humble locomotive has been primarily consigned to freight and work trains. But that is not true of other countries around the world. Even developed railways such as DB in [...]

Mechan, the Sheffield-based depot equipment manufacturer has fitted a bogie press at MTR’s Pat Heung depot in Hong Kong, to complement the one installed in the Siu Ho Wan depot in 1999. The new press will enable bogies serviced at Pat Heung, which serves the MTR West Rail line, to undergo suspension checks and height [...]