Rail News

Austria's Swietelsky Baugesellschaft has been awarded a €50 million loan to support its research into track maintenance technology. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is supporting the project which seeks to develop faster and cheaper systems for renewing and maintaining rail...

Etihad Rail DB has been handed control of Stage One of the UAE's new national main line rail network. The joint venture between Etihad Rail and Germany's DB Schenker has taken over the Operation Control Center (OCC) in Mirfa which manages...

The Alstom-Thales DUAT JV has finalised a contract with MTR to resignal six metro lines and the Airport Express in Hong Kong. The HKD $3.3 billion deal will see CBTC signalling installed across six lines - the Tsuen Wan Line, Island...

A final report has been presented to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin which highlights 12 northern rail routes which should be electrified by 2024. The Electrification Task Force has complied the report which identified 32 routes in total. It has presented...

Bombardier, with the Stockholm Traffic Administration (SL), has unveiled the design of its new C30 Movia metro. Set to be deployed on Stockholm's Red Line, the new train was presented in Istanbul on March 5 at EurasiaRail 2015. The Red Line upgrade...

Australia's Victorian government has placed an order for 30 new X’trapolis carriages, retaining jobs at Alstom's factory in Ballarat. The Labour Government said its plan to procure the new six-car trains would continue the production line at Ballarat and secure manufacturing jobs...

Japan's Nippon Sharyo has been awarded a 13 billion yen contract to build 96 metro cars for the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit system. The new six-car train sets, which have been ordered by MRT Jakarta, will operate on the North-South...

Several of Europe's biggest rail industry suppliers and operators have signed up to a new sustainable procurement charter, Railsponsible. Bombardier, Alstom, Knorr Bremse, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) and SNCF launched the initiative on March 4 in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The founding members...

The British Government has sold its stake in cross-channel rail operator Eurostar for £757.1 million. Last year, ministers announced plans to dispose of the UK's shareholding in the operator as it looked to make £20 billion from the sale of...

Poland's InterCity Express Premium Pendolino has completed one million kilometres in passenger operation. Since the launch of the service in December, the new fleet has completed around 2,000 journeys between the cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Gdynia, Krakow, Katowice and Wroclaw. The Pendolinos...