Rail News

Could advances in bus design threaten the role of trams on busy routes? New, longer designs which carry more passengers and combine flexibility with vast capacity. The Campaign for Better Transport’s website, on its page ‘Better…Trams’, states: “In large towns...

The State of Victoria has signed a $2 billion contract with the Evolution Rail consortium for 65 High Capacity Metro Trains. The new fleet will be used on the Cranbourne Pakenham line before becoming the dedicated fleet between Pakenham and Sunbury through the...

The last train of the new S Stock fleet has been delivered from Bombardier's site in Derby to London Underground's Ruislip depot. The new fleet is one of the components of a major upgrade of the sub-surface lines, known as the...

Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) may have to close the majority of its rail network if no extra government funding is forthcoming over the next few years. In their Rail Review 2016 Report, Irish Rail and the National Transport Authority said...

Amsterdam's public transport operator GVB and CAF have finalised an order for 63 new five-car Urbos 100 trams. The contract, which includes options for up to 60 additional trams, was signed in Amsterdam on November 11. More than €200 million is...

Alstom has awarded ABB a contract to supply 1,600 traction transformers for a new fleet of 800 electric locomotives it's building for Indian Railways. The 25 kV/50 Hz underframe traction transformers convert the voltage from the overhead catenary to power...

One of the new Intercity Express Programme (IEP) trains has started testing its digital signalling system on Network Rail’s infrastructure. Train 800 002, a five-car bi-modal (diesel and electric) IEP train destined for the Great Western Railway, has arrived at...

Train operator c2c published its 2017 timetable this week on the same day its first new Class 387 EMU entered passenger service. The operator has promised faster journey times between Southend and London, longer trains between Thurrock and the capital,...

The Borders Railway connects around 20,000 people in Galashiels and another 20,000 in Midlothian to Edinburgh. It’s had a strong start, carrying over a million passengers in its first year. The line’s construction, which cost the equivalent of £11.7 million per mile, required 30 miles of new railway built on an old track bed with […]

John Holland has been awarded a contract worth almost $600 million to extend the South Morang line to Mernda, north of Melbourne. The long-awaited Mernda Rail Extension includes eight kilometres of new railway between South Morang station and Mernda. As well as...