Rail News

Ulm's public transport operator Stadtwerke Ulm (SWU) has named Siemens as the winner of a €31 million contract to supply the trams for the city's new light rail line. SWU plans to procure 12 Avenio M trams to operate on the...

The Mexican government has published an international tender for the construction of a 210-kilometre high-speed rail line between Mexico City and Queretaro. Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) launched the competition this week. The Mexican government expects the project to begin...

Ground has been broken on a new light rail system in Detroit - seven years after authorities began planning the new network. The M-1 streetcar project will run north to south for 5.3 kilometres between Larned Street and W. Grand Blvd. The...

The complicated rehabilitation of London's Victorian-era Connaught Tunnel for the Crossrail project has been completed. Built in 1878, the Connaught Tunnel - the only existing tunnel to be used as part of the Crossrail route -  sits on the North Woolwich...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opened a new 500-kilometre high-speed railway between Ankara and Istanbul. Officials made an inaugural trip on the  Eskisehir-Istanbul section of the line last week. The TRY 8.6 billion (€3 billion) line will reduce the journey time...

Chicago's public transport Authority has restarted the procurement process for a fleet of next-generation metro cars. Manufacturers were originally asked to submit bids for a contract to design and build the new 7000 series trains, but the competition was cancelled...

The final three construction contracts have been awarded for Singapore's Thomson line MRT route. Civils contracts for Orchard, Marina South and Gardens by the Bay stations and tunnels worth a combined S$1.32 billion have been let by Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA)....

Morocco's national rail operator, ONCF, has awarded a €30 million contract for the installation of a 712-kilometre GSM-R network. A Thales/Huawei/Imet consortium will supply and install the radio-based communications network on conventional routes and the new high-speed corridor between Tangiers and Kenitra. Over the...

RTD's board has approved a $207 million southern extension of Denver's Southeast Light Rail Line. The 3.7-kilometre extension, which would take the line south into Lone Tree, will now go ahead if the project is granted funding by the Federal Transit...

Passenger numbers rose by 10 million in the first half of 2014 to just over one billion, Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced. Publishing its financial performance for the year to date, DB said that although overall passenger numbers and punctuality...