A short section of railway totalling around 1km that connects Poland with the German town of Görlitz in Saxony will finally be electrified, after years […]
THE Australian government has made three senior appointments, all at chief executive level, in the rail sector. Mr Nick Miller joins Inland Rail, the company […]
JAPANESE companies have reportedly dropped out of the running to contribute to the planned Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high-speed project, reports in the Japanese media […]
ROMANIAN train operator Transferoviar Călători (TFC) is to run an open-access cross-border passenger service linking Romania with Bulgaria. Trains are due to start operating in […]
RAIL industry groups have warned that the amendments proposed by the European Commission (EC) to the directive governing the weights and dimensions of commercial road […]
DRESDEN city transport operator DVB, together with the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony, are negotiating a deal with manufacturer Alstom to supply […]
BRITISH rolling stock leasing company Rock Rail and Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G, have formed a joint venture to invest in rolling stock […]
SLOVAK rail infrastructure manager ŽSR has signed a €369m contract with construction company Združenie pod Dubinou for the modernisation of the 14.5km line between Poprad […]
BRITISH passenger operator South Western Railway (SWR) has announced that the first of 90 Aventra EMUs being supplied by Alstom has entered passenger service, branded […]
POLAND’s national operator PKP Intercity has awarded a Zlotys 2.3bn ($US 575.7m) contract to Newag for the purchase of 63 multi-system electric locomotives, with an […]
