Rail News

The UK and China have signed a trade agreement designed to improve co-operation between rail sectors in the two countries. Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed the bilateral agreement in London on June 17. China has already shown...

With the Minister of Transport talking hard ball about the cost of running Iarnród Éireann, Tim Casterton asked David Franks, the company’s CEO, how he would seek to manage the situation and what positive steps could be taken to bring Ireland’s rail network through the current financial crisis. In May Ireland’s Transport Minister, Leo Varadkar, […]

Birmingham, Derby, Doncaster and Manchester have been shortlisted as possible locations for a new high-speed rail engineering college in the UK. Cities and towns around the country had bid to become the home of the National College for High Speed...

The Spanish government has given private companies the opportunity to compete with state-owned rail operator Renfe for passengers on long-distance rail services between some of the country's major cities. Minister for Public Works, Ana Pastor, has said that a tender will...

Siemens has said it is open to becoming a 'long-term anchor shareholder' in a combined train building business with Alstom. The German engineering giant made the statement in an announcement confirming that it and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) had submitted a...

Transport for London (TfL) has published a list of 17 contractors that will complete a £250 million upgrade of electrical systems on the London Underground network. The two eight-year power upgrade frameworks will cover the design, installation and commissioning of...

A €380 million tunnelling contract for the Tulfes-Pfons section of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) has been won by STRABAG and Italian contractor Salini Impregilo. The contract, which is the largest to be awarded for the BBT project, covers 38 kilometres...

HOCHTIEF and Züblin have been awarded a €150 million tunnelling contract for a section of the Cityringen metro line in Copenhagen. The joint venture will construct 3.5 kilometres of tunnels and a new metro station at Nordhavn, creating a branch line off of...

Network Rail has reached an agreement with open access operator Great North Western Railway Company (GNWR) for the sale of access rights for two new rail services on the West Coast main line. GNWR, a subsidiary of the Arriva-owned Alliance...

The fit out of two pre-series Berlin U-bahn metro trains is set to begin after the body shells were presented by Stadler Pankow. Stadler Pankow is initially building two IK metro trains to test on lines U1 to U4 of...