Rail News

Bern transport operator RBS has invited bids to supply replacement trains for its S-Bahn line connecting the city with the Worb municipality. The operator plans to procure 14 four-car EMUs for S7 - the busiest line on the network, carrying...

Mülheimer Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) has commissioned the first of a new fleet of low-floor Bombardier Flexity City trams. MVG has to date received six of 15 new NF2 light rail vehicles ordered from Bombardier, with the first going into passenger service...

Ireland's transport minister has officially launched the start of work to upgrade Dublin's Kildare commuter line. The €13.7 million project, which has been funded by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport through the National Transport Authority (NTA), will focus around...

ČD Cargo has launched an international tender to procure five multi-system locomotives for cross-border operation. The tender, which the company's has estimated at €20.4 million, has specified new, ETCS Level 2-enabled vehicles. The new locomotives will operate across Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia and...

Sweden's rail operator, SJ, has recorded a substantial increase in profits in the first six months of this year, bolstered by improving passenger numbers on key routes. SJ has reported a SEK 171 million increase in operating profits to SEK 330...

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has completed the switchover to ETCS Level 2 on the first section of the new north-south Gotthard Base Tunnel route. The in-cab signalling system was commissioned on August 16 on the northern portal's 19-kilometre feeder line between Brunnen...

UK Power Networks Services’ head of rail, David Mitchell, gives his thoughts on renewable energy, the skills gap and how the industry is coping with the energy demand created by the modern railway. How do you view UK Power Networks Services’ role within the industry? We are one cog within the...

The 57th and final CAF EMU has been delivered to Auckland, completing the city's new electric train fleet. The milestone was marked by Prime Minister John Key at Auckland Transport's Wiri Train Depot. Spanish manufacturer CAF has supplied 57 trains for the...

OEVRZ has won a tender to supply 20 eight-car metro trains for St Petersburg. The new trains, which will be delivered between 2016 and 2020, will be fitted with asynchronous traction motors. The contract has been valued at RUB 10.5 billion. In March,...

Belarusian Railways has announced plans to launch a new cross-border passenger service with Poland in December. The new service will call at Minsk, Grodno, Bialystok, Malkinia and Warsaw, transferring at Grodno. Departing Warsaw at 06.26, the train will arrive at 14.20 in Grodno where passengers...