Rail News

The Liverpool City Region has worked with Network Rail to draw up a 30-year plan to improve passenger and freight rail links. The Long Term Rail Strategy outlines 12 high-priority rail projects for the city and surrounding area designed to...

A third of Jerusalem's light rail fleet has had to be taken out of service following violence in Israel's capital. Eight of the system's 15 light rail cars have had to be withdrawn after being damaged during violent clashes in the...

The Stockholm Citybanan (City Line) is a new commuter railway tunnel currently under construction beneath central Stockholm, which will be used for the Swedish capital’s commuter rail service. Writes Collin Carr The line will be six kilometres long, double track and electrified, and will run between Tomteboda and Stockholm South (Stockholms södra) station. Also included in […]

Warsaw's commuter rail operator (WKD) has ordered six new trains from Newag to increase capacity on morning peak services. The first of the new sets, which have been purchased under the Swiss-Polish Programme of Cooperation, will be delivered around 18 months from...

Russia's Lastochka train has completed a test run between Barnaul and Novosibirsk in the West Siberian Plain - the first time the EMU has travelled east of the Urals. The run, which was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary if the Novonikolayevsk...

DSB has presented Denmark's Ministry of Transport with its proposed rolling stock procurement strategy in response to the ongoing issues it has faced with its intercity IC4 trains. The report, which sets out several possible strategies for train procurement between...

Stagecoach's UK rail business saw its Q2 revenues increase in 2014 by 4.9 per cent. Stagecoach, which owns South West Trains and East Midlands Trains, said its UK rail arm had performed in line with expectations in the face of...

The first intercity electric-multiple unit (EMU) destined for open access operator MTR Express has rolled off the production line at Stadler's manufacturing facility in Switzerland. From March 2015, MTR Express - a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based MTR Group - will...

ADIF is planning to let a €1.4 million contract to carry out ultrasonic testing on high-speed rail routes around the country. The contract covers the inspection of track infrastructure in Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Madrid, Castilla y León, Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia...

A consortium led by property investment company Icade is to construct Montpellier's new TGV station. The station is one of two new interchanges being built on a new high-speed rail bypass between Nîmes and Montpellier. The line, which will be completed...