VIA Rail Canada Announce Intermodal Ticket Sales

VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) and Maritime Bus have announced that their partnership will be enhanced to encompass an intermodal ticket sale ag…

Disposal of Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners

Infrastructure construction specialists Balfour Beatty plc announced on 1 July 2016 that it has exited from Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Pa…

Alstom Opens Rio Tramway Ahead of Olympic Games

Alstom celebrated the start of operations of the Rio Tramway, its first tramway line in Rio de Janeiro, in time for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Heart of Texas Acquisition by OmniTRAX

Heart of Texas acquisition by OmniTrax (an affliate of the Broe Group) completed subject to Surface Transportation Board Approval.

Rocky Mountaineer - Stadler Partnership

Rocky Mountaineer Stadler Rail announce partnership to design and manufacture ten new bi-level dome topped rail cars for tourist routes.

MTA Commission Track Geometry Vehicle

New York's MTA Metro-North has commissioned Ensco. Inc. to design and build a track geometry vehicle to inspect and analyse rails and tracks…

UN Campaign Releases Details of Climate Action in Rail

The UN has launched a portal showing organisations and local and regional authorities commitments to take climate action rail, among other s…

Buenos Aires Metro order Alstom Metropolis Cars

Buenos Aires have ordered 60 Alstom Metropolis cars for use on Line D on the city's metro network. The contract is worth €60m.

$121.6m Union Pacific Investment into California Network

Union Pacific Investment into California's rail infrastructure, spending $121.6 million on replacing and maintaining track.

Hitachi Unveil Honolulu Metro Cars

Hitachi rail unveil the new metro of Honolulu Metro Cars which will operate on the island's new metro system. They were designed by Hitachi …

Fuji Electric Acquire SEMEC

Fuji Electric Acquire SEMEC forming Fuji SEMEC Inc. Fuji Electric holds a 51% share. The respective portfolios will increase overall experti…

Norfolk Southern Launch Safety Train and Website

Norfolk Southern launch safety education website and didactic train designed to help communities and first responders react to hazmat incide…

Calgary Publishes Green Line LRT Evaluation

Bombardier Appoints President of Americas Division

QSK95 Achieves Tier 4 Certification

Amtrak Crash in Philadelphia

Two men have died and 35 injured when an Amtrak train collided with a crane in Philadelphia. None of the injuries are thought to be life-thr…

22–23 March: SafeRail Congress 2016

USA: American Passenger Rolling Stock Congress 2016 Comes to Washington D.C.

USA: Chicago Transit Authority Orders Rail Cars

USA: Union Pacific Improves Safety Record

USA: BSFN Announces $100million Investment in New Mexico

USA: Last Class 66 Locomotives Roll Off Assembly Line

USA: United Rail Partner with BBR Rail Automation GmbH

United Rail Inc. partner with German rail suppliers BBR Rail Automation GmbH to represent and support United Rail’s products and services

USA: Unipart Dorman Success at ATSSA National Traffic Expo 2016