Rail News

Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF has launched a €204 million tender for the maintenance of high-speed traction power systems. The contract covers the traction power equipment covering 2,300 kilometres of high-speed railway. Routes include Madrid-Sevilla, Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona-French border and Madrid-Valencia. Over a 10-year...

A $1.6 billion light rail system planned for the centre of Sydney has been given the thumbs up by the city's planning authority. The CBD and South East Light Rail system will stretch for 12 kilometres around the city centre...

Trafikverket has given Strukton the responsibility of maintaining two major rail routes in the south of Stockholm. The five-year contract covers the Nynäs Line and the Western Main Line between Älvsjö and Gnesta - a distance of 310 kilometres. The Western Main Line is...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) has exercised an option with Bombardier for seven multi-engine TRAXX locomotives. The diesel locomotives will operate the SyltShuttle service from Niebüll across the Hindenburgdamm to Sylt. By the end of 2015, the first two locomotives will be in service. The €27 million...

Poland's infrastructure manager, PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, is to receive a €268 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to improve a stretch of electrified railway between Katowice to Kraków. The 58-kilometre route is to undergo a major upgrade, with ballast, sleepers,...

Freight made a return to London's Euston station this week as a second trial service pulled into the station. TNT Express, in partnership with Colas Rail, Intermodality, Network Rail and Transport for London (TfL), ran a freight train from Rugby to...

Finnish rail operator VR has issued an invitation to tender for new double-deck passenger rolling stock. VR is looking to procure 46 new passenger cars, with an option for an additional 185, to replace ageing stock, including the sleeper cars that operate...

Go-Ahead has announced that Southeastern's managing director Charles Horton is to head the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) franchise. Horton, who will become the chief executive of the UK's biggest rail franchise, will be joined by Southeastern and London...

Europe's Transport Ministers have reached agreements on three texts of the Fourth Railway Package which are designed to remove the administrative and technical barriers that hinder the development of European rail networks. The texts made up the package's Technical Pillar which...

Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) and Synerail have awarded Kapsch CarrierCom a contract to upgrade the GSM-R system across almost half of France's rail network. Almost 15,000 kilometres of track currently utilising Kapsch GSM-R technology will be upgraded to an...