Rail News

A Bombardier/EDI joint venture has renegotiated its maintenance contract with Transperth to cover 22 extra B-series electric multiple units. The five-and-a-half-year agreement is a variation on the joint venture's current contract to maintain the B-series trains it has manufactured for Transperth since...

TRTrans - a joint venture between Alstom and Transmashholding (TMH) - has secured certification for its 2ES5 locomotive to operate in Russia. In 2011, Russian Railways (RZD) placed a €1 billion order for 200 electric locomotives to operate across Siberia and...

Balfour Beatty Rail has sold off its rail plant rental arm to Vp plc. Vp has acquired Balfour Beatty's small tools trackside plant and equipment (TP&E) business and assets for £5.5 million, including a five-year framework agreement to supply plant equipment...

One of the world's last-remaining double-decker tram systems has celebrated 110 years of service. The Hong Kong Tramway, which operates a fleet of 163 two-floor trams, opened on July 30, 1904. Throughout July, RATPDev Transdev Asia, the RATP/Veolia joint venture which...

Ulm's public transport operator Stadtwerke Ulm (SWU) has named Siemens as the winner of a €31 million contract to supply the trams for the city's new light rail line. SWU plans to procure 12 Avenio M trams to operate on the...

The Mexican government has published an international tender for the construction of a 210-kilometre high-speed rail line between Mexico City and Queretaro. Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) launched the competition this week. The Mexican government expects the project to begin...

Ground has been broken on a new light rail system in Detroit - seven years after authorities began planning the new network. The M-1 streetcar project will run north to south for 5.3 kilometres between Larned Street and W. Grand Blvd. The...

The complicated rehabilitation of London's Victorian-era Connaught Tunnel for the Crossrail project has been completed. Built in 1878, the Connaught Tunnel - the only existing tunnel to be used as part of the Crossrail route -  sits on the North Woolwich...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opened a new 500-kilometre high-speed railway between Ankara and Istanbul. Officials made an inaugural trip on the  Eskisehir-Istanbul section of the line last week. The TRY 8.6 billion (€3 billion) line will reduce the journey time...

Chicago's public transport Authority has restarted the procurement process for a fleet of next-generation metro cars. Manufacturers were originally asked to submit bids for a contract to design and build the new 7000 series trains, but the competition was cancelled...