Rail News

Balfour Beatty and Carillion, two of the UK's largest multi-disciplinary rail service providers, are in talks over a potential merger valued in excess of £3 billion. The two companies issued a joint statement following media speculation last night (July 24)...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has issued an invitation to tender for 124 broad-gauge electrical multiple units (EMU) for the city's expanding metro network. Valued at around Rs 10.3 billion, the contract would cover the design, manufacture, testing and commissioning of...

Alstom has received homologation from the German Federal Railway Office for 91 new Coradia Lint diesel multiple units (DMU). The regional trainsets, of which 63 will be operated by vlexx GmbH and the other 28 by LNVG, are due to enter service in December. Martin...

Adani and POSCO have entered into a binding agreement to construct a new standard gauge rail freight line in Queensland's Galilee Basin. The non-electrified 388-kilometre heavy haul line will connect up to the Carmichael mine project - a 60 million tonne (product)...

The National Belgian Railway Company (SNCB) has fined Siemens €1.7 million for failing to meet delivery targets for its new fleet of T18 locomotives. Between 2006 and 2008, SNCB placed two orders worth €440 million for a total of 120...

ADIF has awarded CAF a €98.6 million contract to deliver signalling  services along a stretch of the Mediterranean Corridor between Vandellós and Tarragona. The order includes the installation and maintenance of new signalling boxes, ERTMS Level 2, telecommunications systems, traffic control and auxiliary safety...

Alstom has delivered the first two automated Metropolis trains which are to be rolled out across Singapore's metro system. Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) placed an order in February 2012 for 42 new metro trains for the North East Line (NEL)...

Chilterns Railways has released several images of the new Class 68s which are due to go into operation on its Birmingham to London Marylebone route later this year. In April, Chiltern signed an agreement with Direct Rail Services (DRS) for six...

Contractors have begun excavating a series of new tunnels as part of the €8.6 billion Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) project. A Strabag/Salini-Impregilo joint venture have held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the four-and-a-half-year tunnelling project. The €380 million contract will create 38...

The first of 18 new Solaris Tramino trams made a late-night debut in the German city of Braunschweig. Public transport operator Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG took delivery of the first vehicle last week. The remaining 17 trams will arrive in the city by 2015. Braunschweig...