Rail News

London Underground has appointed former Virgin Atlantic head of operations Steve Griffiths as its new chief operating officer. Griffiths will assume the role from May this year, taking over from interim chief operating officer Nick Brown. Starting his career has an apprentice...

BNSF has committed $223 million from its record 2015 capital investment programme to capacity improvement projects and maintenance in Texas. The maintenance programme in the state will include around 3,300 kilometres of track surfacing and almost 100 kilometres of track...

Trafikverket has completed track-laying in the Hallandsås Tunnel - Sweden's longest railway tunnel. Around 18,000 metres of track has been installed altogether in the two 9-kilometre single-track western and eastern tunnels which will eventually replace the existing coastal railway. The SEK 10.5...

Russian Railways (RZD) has begun testing the first new locomotive it plans to operate on the Pacific island of Sakhalin. RZD has invested in 32 new TG16M locomotives for Sakhalin, which has a 1067 mm-gauge rail network - a relic...

Contractor BAM Nuttall has completed track-laying on the Borders Railway project. The 30-mile line is the longest new railway to be built in Britain for over 100 years. Keith Brown, Scotland's cabinet secretary for infrastructure, and Hugh Wark, Network Rail’s project...

Northern Rail has overhauled the first of its new electric Class 319 trains. Northern Rail, a Serco-Abellio joint venture, has unveiled the first of 20 electric multiple units (EMU) it received from First Capital Connect last summer. Northern has said the...

Bombardier has said it plans to create 150 new skilled jobs during a visit from British Prime Minister David Cameron. In an announcement, the company said that half of the new jobs will be in engineering specialisms and half will be in areas such as project management and procurement. Around...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has sold its shareholding in Poland's national freight carrier PKP Cargo. EBRD has disposed of a 5.1 per cent stake which it acquired in 2013 during a partial privatisation of the company. Sue...

An Alstom/Bombardier joint venture is to supply 10 additional double-deck metro trains for Paris transport authority STIF. The order, which is valued at €150 million, is an option of a contract awarded in 2009. The MI09 trains will be designed and...

Stockholm has launched a public consultation into plans to extend the Blue Line metro. The city council hopes to take the line south of its current Kungsträdgården terminus to Sofia and, via branch line east, Nacka. In a statement the council said:...