Railway

BST awarded second CR۴۰۰AF high speed train order

CHINA: China Railway Corp has awarded the Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation joint venture a ۳·۱bn yuan…

Victoria to fund The Overland in ۲۰۱۹

AUSTRALIA: The government of Victoria is to increase its financial support for The Overland passenger service between…

Connection concerns raised as Ouigo expands

FRANCE: The European timetable change on December ۹ marks a further expansion of SNCF’s low-cost high speed operation O…

Siemens presents first Mireo EMU

GERMANY: Siemens presented the first Mireo electric multiple-unit at its Wildenrath test facility on December ۶.

NSW to study regional high speed rail options

AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales state government has commissioned a study of four preferred corridors for high speed…

Wien – Bratislava upgrade inaugurated

AUSTRIA: The first phase of modernisation work on the Wien – Marchegg – Bratislava route was formally inaugurated on…

Poroshenko inaugurates airport link in Kyiv

UKRAINE: On November ۳۰, national railway UZ introduced an airport shuttle branded Kyiv Boryspil Express between the…

FMN orders Stadler EMUs for TILO services

EUROPE: An agreement was signed in Milano on November ۳۰ for Stadler to supply nine six-car electric multiple-units…

Rail communications platform migrated to Amazon cloud

EUROPE: Rail industry data exchange technology company Hit Rail, which is owned by ۱۲ European railways and used by ۵۰…

Electric locomotives handed over to Uzbekistan Railways

UZBEKISTAN: Two ۳ES۵K Yermak three-section ۲۵ kV ۵۰ Hz electric locomotives built at Transmashholding’s Novocherkassk…