Rail News

People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones,’ said American engineer and inventor Charles Kettering. Kettering is probably best known for inventing the key-operated car ignition but he was also heavily involved in railways, contributing research that pioneered innovations in the production...

Eurostar has made public the first interior photos of its modernised Class 373 fleet. The images were released alongside Eurostar's latest performance figures which showed that passenger numbers over the past three months had broken the operator's single quarter record. Around...

Britain has been at the heart of international trade for centuries. Today, our rail freight industry is a critical enabler of this continued success story. Having grown by 80 per cent in the decades since privatisation, it now provides the transport backbone for £30 billion of goods each year. It’s a...

PKP Intercity has received certification for the first three of its new FLIRT 3 intercity EMUs. The first three of 20 trains being built by Stadler and Newag have been approved and are now undergoing further tests at the test...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) has awarded Siemens and Huawei the contract to lead the migration across to its next-generation GSM-R network in the north of the country. The programme will see the installed Huawei GSM-R Radio Infrastructure (BSS) integrated into the...

The project management contract to build Line 2 and extend Line 1 of Casablanca's tram system has been awarded to a French consortium. Systra, CID and AREP will lead the construction of 18 kilometres of new tramway in the city. The...

Bombardier has released the first image of the new Aventra train it is building for London Overground. Transport for London (TfL) awarded Bombardier a £260 million contract for 45 new four-car EMUs to replace the Class 315 and Class 317...

Berlin transport authority (BVG) has ordered 11 new IK series metro trains from Stadler Pankow following a trial of two pre-series vehicles on the city's U-bahn network. The four-car, bi-directional trains will arrive in 2017. The €60 million orders follows a period...

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has presented a number of possible future reforms that it believes would improve the level of competition within the UK's rail franchising model. Publishing its suggestions, the CMA also announced that it would be...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has confirmed a €340 million loan to help purchase 82 new double-deck trains for the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) project. The EIB joins KfW IPEX-Bank and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) in helping to finance the record-breaking €1.7 billion train...