UK: The government has announced funding to introduce passenger train services on the currently freight-only branch serving ...

JAPAN: The first of eight Series 71-000 electric multiple-units designed to 'connect the sea, the city and the future' has ...

EUROPE: Siemens Mobility is working with Voestalpine to increase the share of lower-emission 'green steel' it uses in rolling ...

MEXICO: CRRC Zhuzhou has won a US$36·3m contract to supply 11 trainsets as part of a comprehensive renewal of Sistema de Tren ...

PORTUGAL: National train operator CP and a consortium led by Alstom have signed a €819m contract for supply of 117 electric ...

AFGHANISTAN: Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund has chaired a cabinet meeting which considered issues including the gauge ...

IRAN: The city of Qom has awarded Mapna's rolling stock company Wagon Pars a contract to design and build three metro ...

UK: CK Investments has agreed to sell rolling stock leasing company Eversholt Rail to Beacon Rail, and the Competition & ...

FRANCE: Métropole Européenne de Lille has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to supply 57 rubber-tyred automated light metro ...

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has awarded Hitachi Rail, Siemens Mobility and Stadler major framework contracts worth SFr1·4bn for the supply of digital interlockings.

EUROPE: Eurostar has announced a €1·4bn order for 30 Alstom Avelia Horizon double-deck high speed trainsets, with options for ...