POLAND: Competition within the domestic inter-city market is hotting up with RegioJet expanding its service proposition and ...

AUSTRALIA: Sydney Trains has appointed Systra to support the development of a business case and integration plan for the NextGen Digital Train Radio System programme to transition from the current GSM ...

EUROPE: Supra-national rolling stock financing body Eurofima has revised its long-term business strategy to target the urban ...

USA: Investment firm Ridgewood Infrastructure has acquired a controlling interest in Californian shortline Sierra Railroad Co and its Railpower subsidiary which developed and operates a hydrogen fuel ...

EUROPE: The difficulty in arranging short term paths for cross-border rail traffic is putting rail's role in military ...

ITALY: Competition authority AGCM has upheld a complaint against infrastructure manager RFI, finding that its procedures for allocating capacity on high speed lines were hindering new operators' ...

ITALY: Roma operator ATAC has signed a contract with CAF for the supply of 20 more trams, while the first car from an earlier order arrived in the capital on March 6.

UK: The National Audit Office has made an assessment of the Depatment for Transport's progress in establishing the Northern Powerhouse Rail programme.

Poland is launching the largest railway expansion programme in its history through the Port Polska initiative, a transformative effort to reshape national mobility and strengthen connections between ...

UZBEKISTAN: The Silkway Central Asia joint venture has awarded China Railway Construction Engineering Group a turnkey contract to design, build and equip a rail-served multi-purpose logistics centre ...

SWEDEN: Göteborg's tram operator undertook 'ecodriving' trials during December and January which demonstrated average savings of 1·2 kWh/km.

SLOVENIA: Rail infrastructure manager SŽ-Infrastruktura has awarded Tesmec Rail two contracts totalling €71m for the supply ...