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Bombardier has delivered the first of 44 new driverless automated people mover (APM) vehicles to Shanghai. Bombardier is supplying the Innovia APM 300 trains for Shanghai Metro's Line 8 Phase 3 - an elevated dual-track line between Pujiangzhen and Shendu Highway Station. The...

Manchester's civic leaders have broken ground on the £350 million Trafford Park line. The 5.5 km line will connect the Metrolink network to the intu Trafford Centre and Manchester United's home ground, Old Trafford. Due to open in 2020/21, the line will...

RB Rail, the joint venture established to progress the core section of the Rail Baltica project through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, has announced an open tender to determine the design specification for the route. Through the 'Design Guidelines' competition, RB Rail will...

Brightline is to begin testing the first of its new intercity trainsets next week. Built by Siemens, the first completed train, which consists of two locomotives and four passenger cars, will undergo testing on a 16 km test track at...

Just four weeks after taking over as the new chief executive of Story Contracting, Jason Butterworth (Pictured below) said he was enjoying his return to the rail industry. ‘Some of the people have changed, some of the structures have changed but the basic principles haven’t,’ says Jason, who had spent 15 years in the industry […]

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Stage 2 of Sydney Metro, which will extend the line from Chatswood to Sydenham and on to Bankstown, has received planning approval. Stage 2, Sydney Metro City & Southwest, will involve the construction of 16.5 km of new railway and seven new...

SNCF Réseau has established a subsidiary, Altamétris, as it looks to market its drone services to the rest of the industry. SNCF already uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for monitoring the network and collecting data. Altamétris will expand...

National Express has announced an agreement in principle to sell c2c to Italy's state-owned rail operator, Trenitalia. C2c, which was awarded a new 15-year contract for the Essex Thameside franchise in 2014, will become Trenitalia's first foray into the UK's train...

DB Cargo and Japanese high-technology group Toshiba have signed a technology partnership agreement for the joint development of a fleet of 100 new hybrid shunting locomotives. Following a feasibility study, the first test vehicles are expected to run at the...

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has finalised a $1 billion funding deal which will allow work to begin on the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Program (RPM). CTA has now secured the $2.1 billion needed to begin the...