Rail News

The first 12 new commuter trains built by Chinese manufacturer CSR Qingdao Sifang have entered service on the Mitre line in Buenos Aires. On November 25, Minister of Interior and Transportation Florencio Randazzo and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner launched...

The European Commission (EC) is to take Austria to the Court of Justice over an apparent lack of financial transparency in the country's rail sector. In a statement, the EC said that Austria wasn't working hard enough to ensure that...

InterCity Railways, a Virgin/Stagecoach consortium, has been awarded the East Coast rail franchise. The joint venture, which has operated trains on the West Coast main line since 1997, had been awarded the contract despite speculation that a French consortium comprising...

The Network Rail - South West Trains Alliance has published a draft study proposing a number of ways that it can create much-needed additional capacity on the Wessex Route over the next 30 years. Initiatives could include the introduction of...

Norway's rail infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket is to receive an additional NOK 480 million (€56.5 million) in 2015 to deal with its 'maintenance backlog'. Norway's Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Party have agreed to allocate an additional NOK 380 million (€45 million) to finance...

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has launched a CHF 3 billion project to double the capacity of the railway between Lausanne and Geneva over the next 15 years. Geneva 2030, described by SBB as "the biggest railway project in the next...

French Secretary of State for Transport Alain Vidal has put together a committee tasked with turning around the fortunes of the country's ailing intercity rail service. The panel will report back to the government within six months with ideas on...

Siemens and Thales are to work together to install the signalling and telecommunication systems along a 340-kilometre stretch of high-speed railway in Northern Spain. The €510 million contract includes the installation of ETCS Level 2 signalling, wheel detectors and axle...

North American freight operator BNSF is to spend $6 billion expanding and renewing its network in 2015. It is the third successive year that BNSF has announced record levels of capital investment. In the past 15 years, BNSF has invested more than...

The first piece of new track has been laid as part of the £14.8 billion Crossrail project on the Stockley Flyover. From next year, the flyover, which sits above the Great Western main line at Hillingdon, will allow Heathrow Express...