Rail News

The last C-stock train has been withdrawn after 40 years of loyal service on the District line. Over the past four years, air-conditioned S-stock trains have gradually been replacing the ageing fleet across the Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines. This...

Crossrail tunnel boring machine (TBM) Jessica has started work on a 900-metre tunnel in London's Docklands. Described by Crossrail as the project's shortest tunnel drive, the tunnel will form part of the south-east spur of the new route. The tunnel begins...

The first of eight new Pendolino train sets have left Alstom's Savigliano plant destined for Switzerland. Swiss operator SBB ordered the trains in 2012 for the Gotthard route between Switzerland and Italy. The new vehicles will operate alongside the current...

Victoria's state government has committed $8 million over the next two years to further developing plans for a series of projects along Melbourne’s Richmond to Footscray rail route. Featured projects include the E-Gate development, Federation Square East, the Flinders Street...

Michele Mario Elia has become the new chief executive officer of Italy's national rail operator Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane (FS). Elia takes over from Mauro Moretti who was moved over to head Finmeccanica during a recent reshuffle of executives within Italy's...

Gleeds has been appointed by Bombardier to project manage the construction of a new test and validation workshop in Derby. The facility will be built at Bombardier's Derby site, which is celebrating its 175th birthday this year, and will aid...

Edinburgh's long-awaited light rail system is now transporting passengers around the city almost 60 years after the original tram network was decommissioned. On Saturday, May 31, the network, which connects the airport with York Place in the city centre, officially...

Spain's transport ministry and the country's infrastructure manager, ADIF, have awarded several contracts worth almost €240 million to accelerate work on a new high-speed railway between Antequera and Granada. Siemens Rail Automation and Thales have won the largest of the three...

Russian steel manufacturer Evraz has shipped its first batch of 100-metre length rail. The head-hardened rail will be used by Russian Railways (RZD) on the Oktyabrskaya Railway in the north west of the country, which includes the high-speed line between Moscow and...

SBB has confirmed that its eight new ETR 610 high-speed trains will enter passenger service from the December timetable change. Switzerland's national rail operator has said that the new tilting trains will come into service from December 14, replacing the...