Rail News

CAF has started work on the body shell of the first of 66 Mark 5A carriages it is building for TransPennine Express (TPE). The carriages, which will form 13 five-car trains, are being financed by Beacon Rail and will be hauled...

DB Regio has signed a deal with Alstom worth €130 million for 24 three and four-car Coradia Continental EMUs. The new regional trains, which will be produced at Alstom's factory in Salzgitter, will operate on the Breisgau S-Bahn network and are...

Siemens is to supply 27 light rail vehicles for an extension of the Twin Cities’ Metro Transit Southwest line. The Metropolitan Council is adding to the 59 S70 trams already operating on the system's Green and Blue lines. Siemens is currently building...

A team of 20 intrepid rail staff has raised £90,000 for the Railway Children in a dramatic 11-day expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. Climbers braved storm force winds and bad weather to raise money for the charity which helps children at risk on the streets. At a height of 4,985m, the group had […]

Birmingham has unveiled ambitious plans to maximise the benefits of HS2. City leaders have launched the Curzon Investment Plan, a 30 year strategy to  regenerate the 141 hectares of land around the planned HS2 Curzon Street Station. Almost £1 billion of investment is being committed to the project. HS2 will help create 36,000 jobs, 4,000 […]

The building of the Elizabeth line, the biggest infrastructure project in Europe, has revealed a wealth of archaeological treasures. Artefacts from earlier times have excited archaeologists and are considered well worth a major exhibition which will be staged at the Museum of London Docklands near Canary Wharf from the 10 February to 3 September 2017. […]

SYTRAL has reached a deal with Alstom to supply new rubber-tyred metro trains for Lyon's TCL metro network. The order includes an initial 30 vehicles worth €140 million and options for up to 18 more. Initially, the new trains will operate...

A fail-safe track switch design developed by Loughborough University will be trialled on the London Underground in 2018, RSSB has announced. Ricardo Rail will head a consortium comprising Progress Rail, DEG Signal and MPEC Technology to install the first Repoint switch. By...

Siemens is to pilot a new digital predictive maintenance system with Deutsche Bahn's (DB) fleet of Series 407 ICE 3 high-speed trains. Siemens, which manufactured the Velaro D trains operated by DB, will analyse the data gathered by the trains...

Miami-Dade Transit and Hitachi are to begin testing the first new two-car Metrorail train. Hitachi Rail USA, a subsidiary of Hitachi Rail Italy, is assembling 136 stainless steel metro cars at its new facility in Medley, Miami. The first two of...