UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a Rail Carbon Accounting Framework which is designed to standardise carbon measurement and reporting as a step towards enabling the sector to meet ...

USA: The Gateway Tunnel programme to add rail capacity between New York and New Jersey, the next phase of New York's Second Avenue Subway scheme and Chicago's metro Red Line metro extension are all ...

EUROPE: Combined transport assocation UIRR has published an updated position paper on the EU's forthcoming Rail Infrastructure Capacity Management Regulation.

FINLAND: Helsinki metropolitan area transport operator Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne has selected Stadler for a major contract to supply and maintain 63 Tango Nordic trams customised to the ...

CHINA: Hong Kong's MTR Corp held a dancing lion eye-dotting ceremony to bring good fortune to the construction of the Northern Link Main Line which is now officially underway, and to mark the start of ...

INDIA: Fair Friend Group company MAG IAS has been awarded turnkey contract to supply a railway axle production line with a capacity of 60 000 axles/year for the Jupiter Tatravagónka Railwheel Factory ...

UK: Tarmac has opened an aggregates materials depot on a previously unused rail-served site in Rugby which it has leased from Network Rail. Construction materials will be transported to Rugby by rail ...

GERMANY: Stadler is to supply 36 customised Flirt XL electric multiple-units for three Rhein-Ruhr passenger services which VIAS Rail is to operate under a contract awarded by transport authority VRR.

UK: Manchester light rail operator Keolis Amey Metrolink has worked with University of Birmingham spin-out EneRail to optimise energy consumption on the section of the network linking Manchester ...

ETHIOPIA: Ethiopian Railways Corp and Italian company COIPA Italia have signed a framework agreement for strategic ...

GERMANY: A diesel shunter which has been converted to the direct combustion of hydrogen is on test to assess the viability of ...

AUSTRIA: ‘If we need skilled employees, it is up to the company to train them and invest in the qualification of its young talent’, Plasser & Theurer CEO Johannes Max-Theurer said at the opening of a ...