RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Demikhovo factory has completed assembly of a hydrogen fuel cell powered passenger trainset for operation on the island of Sakhalin, and work is underway on a second. The ...

SPAIN: Investigations have begun into a collision between two high speed trains near Toledo that has left at least 10 people and reportedly dozens dead, according to early reports. The incident ...

TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding with Egyptian construction group Arab Contractors to reassess proposals for a 1 000 km standard gauge Southern Railway which ...

EUROPE: The opening of the 55 km Brenner Base Tunnel between Austria and Italy has been put back to 2034 and the expected cost has risen to €11.7bn, project promoter BBT SE has announced. The cost had ...

The railway system moves whole stalk cane to the four sugar mills owned by the Fiji Sugar Corporation, situated on the two larger islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. In Viti Levu the mills are at ...

SPAIN: Renfe has selected Siemens Mobility as the winner of a contract to supply 30 high speed trainsets with a design speed of 350 km/h. The national train operator said the expansion of its fleet ...

ARGENTINA: CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles has unveiled in China the first of 10 five-car trainsets it is building for Buenos Aires metro lines A and C. The vehicles were ordered in January 2025 to ...

EUROPE: Trackside ERTMS deployment needs to accelerate almost fivefold to meet national plans, but a European Commission study warns that fragmentation and supplier dependency could drive costs higher ...

Pandrol is to open a rail fastening factory in Riyadh in conjunction with local company Links Investments. Production is planned to begin in the first half of 2027, supplying projects in Saudi Arabia ...

Port Polska’s Centre for Transport and Mobility (Polish: Centrum Transportu i Mobilności – CTM) combines demand forecasting, timetable planning, railway microsimulation and technical expertise to ...

NETHERLANDS: The cabinet has halted €270m of government funding which had been earmarked for capacity upgrades on the RandstadRail and Rotterdam metro networks. While rolling stock purchases will ...

UAE: Keolis has opened a regional headquarters in Dubai as a hub for its operations in the Middle East and to help identify and develop business opportunities across the region. The French company ...