CANADA: Project promoter Alto expects to make an announcement this autumn setting out more precise details of the high speed rail corridor planned to link Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montréal, ...

Operators and rail infrastructure managers gather a great deal of data. But how to best utilise that data? voestalpine Signaling and Swedish firm Predge will share their insights on this matter ...

The Japanese government has published details of three route options for extending the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tsuruga to Osaka through Kyoto. However, growing construction costs, concerns over ...

FRANCE: Alstom Boa rubber-tyred light metro trains have finally begun entering passenger service on Lille’s automated Line 1, as part of a long-running programme to upgrade the line. FRANCE: Alstom ...

FRANCE: The project for a dedicated non-stop rail service between central Paris and Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport has been postponed again. FRANCE: The French government has paid compensation worth ...

Travelling at high speed across vast distances in a modern passenger train, relaxing in a comfortable seat, low noise, while gazing at the breath-taking natural landscape of this Eastern African ...

SOUTH AFRICA: Leasing company Traxtion has completed a major overhaul of five Class 39 diesel locomotives which it acquired from South Africa’s Transnet Freight Rail as part of a strategy of expanding ...

FRANCE: SNCF Voyageurs and Alstom have unveiled the interior design of the TGV M high speed trainsets which are to enter service from 2026. Jérémie Anne reports from Paris. Details of the interior ...

TURKEY: An agreement for state-owned locomotive and rolling stock manufacturer Türasaş to supply national operator TCDD Taşımacılık with 95 E5000 electric locomotives was signed on March 15. The ...

SPAIN: Ongoing investigations into the high speed derailment and crash at Adamuz on January 18 have found further evidence pointing towards a rail break as being the primary cause of the tragedy, with ...

With a plan for Deutsche Bahn and Aecon to operate GO Transit commuter rail services around Toronto having been dropped, organising authority Metrolinx is adopting an iterative approach to modernising ...

DENMARK: The first of the Talgo 230 trainsets ordered for DSB’s long-distance and international routes enters passenger service between København and Hamburg. DENMARK: The first of the Talgo 230 ...