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South West Trains has launched its first 10-car service between Waterloo and Windsor in a bid to increase capacity on its suburban network. The train will operate 14  services between Waterloo International and Windsor every weekday. Over the course of the...

Amtrak has said it expects to meet a deadline set by the US government to install Positive Train Control (PTC) on all passenger railways by 2015. Announcing its 2014 capital investment programme, Amtrak said it would continue its "aggressive" installation...

At 35,000 ft above the Atlantic Ocean, the pitot tubes (air speed sensors) iced up and failed (a known phenomenon) causing the auto-pilot to disengage. Writes David Bickell The inexperienced co-pilot did not know how to correctly react to the situation. The pilot returned to the cockpit after taking a rest but could not assimilate […]

Work was suspended on the site of tram works in Nottingham after human remains were discovered by contractors Taylor Woodrow. Police cordoned off the site in Poplars Court, Lenton Lane, following the excavation of two skulls on March 4 during...

To see the extent to which the electrification programme is ramping up in this country, one only has to look at the budgets. In the five-year control period that is just ending (CP4), there was a total spend of £260 million. That in itself is a significant amount of money. But in CP5, which stretches […]

TGV Lyria saw traffic increase by 18 per cent to 5.9 million passengers in 2013. The high-speed service linking France and Switzerland also recorded an improved turnover of €365 million - up 13 per cent on the previous year. SNCF attributed...

Independent inspection teams in Germany have begun analysing the condition of 5,000 kilometres of track to establish how the country will spend its €2.75 billion maintenance budget in 2014. Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport, Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI),...

Costain has been awarded a £150 million contract to prepare a section of railway between East London and Essex for the start of Crossrail services in 2018. Design work will begin immediately for the project, which will involve track renewals,...

Leipzig's transport authority (LVB) has invited rolling stock manufacturers to submit expressions of interest as the city looks to replace more of the city's classic Tatra trams. LVB plans to procure five pre-series trams before launching a full tender for...

Three consortia have been invited to bid for a $1.6 billion contract to build and operate a new light rail line through Sydney. The NSW Government has named the three joint ventures to pre-qualify to tender for the CBD and...