Latest News
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Dartmoor Line Passenger Services Resume After 50-Year Hiatus
Regular train services resumed on the Dartmoor Line between Exeter and Okehampton this past weekend after a 50-year hiatus.
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New Partnership Focuses on Optimising Hydrogen Train Refuelling
Hynamics has signed a new partnership agreement with Alstom to reduce the time needed to refuel hydrogen trains.
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Double Tracks to Enable Half-Hourly Services between Biel and Basel
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has applied for a building permit to expand the railway line between Grellingen and Duggingen to double tracks.
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Webuild Joint Venture Wins Brenner Base Tunnel Lot H41 Award
An Implenia/Webuild (and swiss subsidiary CSC) joint venture has been awarded Lot H41 of the Brenner Base Tunnel project.
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Kazakhstan: Silkway Transit Celebrates Arrival of First Black Granite Electric Locomotives
Silkway Transit has celebrated the arrival of its first ‘Black Granite’ electric locomotives at Nurly-Zhol railway station.
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The Integrated Rail Plan: A Disaster for Rail, Passengers and the Environment
The Integrated Rail Plan published today, 18 November 2021, announces a huge slash in new railway lines being built in England.
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Canada: Finch West Facility Takes Delivery of Second Alstom LRV
The second of two Alstom light rail vehicles (LRV) has now arrived at the Finch West Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF) in Toronto.
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First Stadler FLIRT DMU Destined for San Bernardino Leaves Factory
The first of three DMUs ordered from Stadler by the SBCTA has now left the manufacturer’s factory in Salt Lake City.
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Televic GSP Win Equipment Order for LACMTA
Televic GSP wins an equipment order to modernise 50 Light Rail Vehicles for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Alstom Formally Opens New Indian Manufacturing Facility
Alstom formally opened its new manufacturing facility in Coimbatore, India with a ceremony attended by France’s Ambassador to India.
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Latvia: Largest Rail Baltica Tender Launched for Main Line Construction
Eiropas Dzelzceļa līnijas has launched the international tender for the construction of Rail Baltica’s main line in Latvia.
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BLT Signs Contract for 25 Stadler TINA Trams
Baselland Transport and Stadler have signed a contract for the manufacture and delivery of 25 TINA (total integrated low-floor drive) trams.
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Germany: First Battery Trains Ordered for VBB Network
NEB has ordered 31 two-car, battery-operated Mireo Plus B trains from Siemens Mobility for the new East Brandenburg rail network.
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Ride the nROK 7251 Train to 5G Communication and Video Surveillance
The newest member of NEXCOM’s Mobile Computing Solutions (MCS) railway computing family is here, the nROK 7251.
