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All the latest business news in the rail sector.
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Norfolk Southern Prepares for Hurricane Matthew
Norfolk Southern train operations are being curtailed due to mandatory evacuations in the Jacksonville, Savannah, and Brunswick areas...
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UK's First National College for High Speed Rail Takes Major Step Towards Completion
The National College for High Speed Rail took a significant step towards opening its doors as a key part of the Birmingham site nears comple…
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Fuel Incentive for Iran Railways
Iran Railways (RAI) will get a huge fuel incentive from the Government in return for increasing its freight and passenger volumes.
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The French Government and Alstom Present a Plan to Rescue Belfort Site
Minister of State for the Industry and Alstom Chairman and CEO, presented a plan to maintain the railway and industrial activities on Belfor…
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NTSB Investigate Fatal Hoboken Train Crash
The New Jersey Transit train that crashed into Hoboken Terminal on Thursday killed one person and injured more than 100 others...
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Russian Railways and Russian Post Agree to Develop Postal Transit Freight Between China - Russia - Europe
Oleg Belozerov, President of Russian Railways, and Russian Post, have signed a Roadmap for Postal transit between China - Russia - Europe by…
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Eurotunnel: The Channel Tunnel goes fully digital with GSM-R
Eurotunnel has inaugurated the new Channel Tunnel track to train communications network, GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications-Rail…
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Bombardier Wins Fleet Maintenance Contract in California
Bombardier Transportation signed a new contract with SCRRA, to provide eight years of maintenance services for SCRRA's Metrolink commuter ra…
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122 Light Rail vehicles for Seattle and Central Puget Sound Area
Siemens secured a contract for 122 new S70 light rail vehicles for Sound Transit, the regional transit system serving Seattle and Central Pu…
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Better Journeys for Passengers on the Cross Country Network
Rail passengers are set to benefit from quicker journeys, extra seats and free Wi-Fi, after the government agreed a new deal with Arriva Cro…
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Angel Trains Signs Deal to Finance Abellio’s £900m Procurement of UK Rolling Stock for East Anglia Rail Franchise
Angel Trains has signed the contract to finance the procurement of 665 Bombardier Aventra vehicles as part of Abellio’s East Anglia rail fra…
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ENSCO Rail to Deliver ATGMS and Rail Profile Measuring System to Rumo ALL
Rumo ALL, under a competitive bid, selected ENSCO Rail, Inc. to supply an Autonomous Track Geometry Measurement System (ATGMS) and Rail Prof…
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Bombardier and China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement
Rail technology leader Bombardier and Chinese rolling stock manufacturer, CRRC have signed a strategic agreement to expand their relationshi…
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New Pennsylvania Station-Farley Complex Plans Unveiled
Governor Cuomo unveiled plans for a complete transformation of the historic James A. Farley Post Office into a world-class transportation hu…
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First High-Speed Train for the Express Rail Link has Arrived in Hong Kong
The first of the nine high-speed trains for the Hong Kong Section of the Express Rail Link (XRL) project arrived in Hong Kong from Qingdao b…
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Deutsche Bahn Singles Out its Best Suppliers
Deutsche Bahn presented its seventh Suppliers' Award in Berlin at InnoTrans 2016, including for the first time, the DB Supplier Innovation A…
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AMTRAK Investment Package to Advance Washington Union Station Concourse Modernisation
Amtrak will use a portion of its $2.45 billion investment for the modernisation of Washington Union Station passenger rail concourse along w…
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Blog #1: Berlin's Anhalter Station
Berlin's Anhalter Station, first built in 1841 and rebuilt in 1880 has been the site of much history. Railway_News finds out more.
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MTR Achieves Record Punctuality on Stockholm Metro
Passengers on the Stockholm Metro operated by MTR have benefited from 25 consecutive months of record punctuality rates, a record improvemen…
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Bombardier Delivers First Vehicle for Delhi Metro Order
Bombardier Transportation is celebrating the delivery of the first metro car from an order for 162 additional cars placed last year by Delhi…
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South Africa: Transnet Sign Deal with RailRunner to Develop Bimodal Rail Service
Transnet is excited to announce collaboration with RailRunner South Africa (RRSA). Transnet and RRSA have signed an agreement on a bimodal r…
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RSSB: Rail can do More to Tackle Impact of Alcohol
An industry-wide approach to tackling alcohol misuse on the railway is essential to help reduce deaths at the platform edge, according to RS…
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CSX Receives Award of Excellence for Emergency Response Tool
The NAPSG Foundation has granted an Award of Excellence in Public Safety to CSX for its “CSX Rail Respond” mobile-computing application
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Athletes of the 2016 Paralympics Games Endorse Alstom’s Tram of Rio
Alstom’s Tram of Rio welcomed Paralympics athletes that will compete at Rio Paralympics games in Brazil that started on September 7th.