SPAIN: Renfe has selected Siemens Mobility as the winner of a contract to supply 30 high speed trainsets with a design speed of 350 km/h. The national train operator said the expansion of its fleet ...

ARGENTINA: CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles has unveiled in China the first of 10 five-car trainsets it is building for Buenos Aires metro lines A and C. The vehicles were ordered in January 2025 to ...

NETHERLANDS: The cabinet has halted €270m of government funding which had been earmarked for capacity upgrades on the RandstadRail and Rotterdam metro networks. While rolling stock purchases will ...

EUROPE: Trackside ERTMS deployment needs to accelerate almost fivefold to meet national plans, but a European Commission study warns that fragmentation and supplier dependency could drive costs higher ...

Port Polska’s Centre for Transport and Mobility (Polish: Centrum Transportu i Mobilności – CTM) combines demand forecasting, timetable planning, railway microsimulation and technical expertise to ...

Pandrol is to open a rail fastening factory in Riyadh in conjunction with local company Links Investments. Production is planned to begin in the first half of 2027, supplying projects in Saudi Arabia ...

SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority and metro operators SBS Transit and SMRT Trains are to jointly administer the Singapore Rail Academy from November 1, when the academy will take on an expanded ...

UAE: Keolis has opened a regional headquarters in Dubai as a hub for its operations in the Middle East and to help identify and develop business opportunities across the region. The French company ...

USA: New York MTA is to begin a programme to roll out modern ticket gates at Subway stations after a pilot project at 20 stations with gates from three manufacturers saw fare evasion drop by an ...

LITHUANIA: Passenger operator LTG Link put the first of 15 Stadler Flirt electric and battery-electric multiple-units into passenger service on October 22, marking the start of the largest fleet ...

INDIA: Jupiter Wagons Ltd and Poland’s Pesa Bydgoszcz have signed a memorandum of understanding covering technology transfer and the potential joint production of locomotives and passenger vehicles.

EUROPE: Dutch open-access start-up Heurotrain has secured a 10-year framework agreement with French infrastructure manager SNCF Réseau to facilitate the launch of high speed services between Amsterdam ...