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Changsha Welcomes Second Batch of Maglev Trains

Changsha Welcomes Second Batch of Maglev Trains

Two new Maglev Trains are now in the final stages of debugging and are expected to arrive in central Changsha, China, as early as the end of this month.

Canada: TSB Calls for Strategies to Reduce Severity of Dangerous Goods Derailments

Canada: TSB Calls for Strategies to Reduce Severity of Dangerous ...

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is issuing a recommendation to develop strategies to reduce the severity of derailments involving...

Victoria Orders Additional X’Trapolis Trains for Melbourne

Victoria Orders Additional X’Trapolis Trains for Melbourne

Alstom has signed a contract worth around €100 million with Public Transport Victoria (PTV), to supply nine additional X’Trapolis trains for Melbourne’s...

German Rail Freight Continues to Decline

German Rail Freight Continues to Decline

In contrast, rail freight is declining, with transport volumes falling by 1.6% to around 361.3 million tonnes. Based on these figure, the German Pro-Rail...

Siemens to Supply Signalling Systems for New Metro System in India

Siemens to Supply Signalling Systems for New Metro System in Indi...

Siemens is to supply signalling technology for the first two metro lines of the Nagpur Metro Rail Project in India. The order, worth €40 million...

Agreement Reached with SNCF Logistics on Shares in BLS Cargo

Agreement Reached with SNCF Logistics on Shares in BLS Cargo

BLS has agreed to sell 45% of the shares in its freight transport subsidiary BLS Cargo to SNCF Logistics. The new partnership between the two rail freight..

DB Regio Order Multiple-Unit Regional Trains from Siemens

DB Regio Order Multiple-Unit Regional Trains from Siemens

Beginning in 2020, DB Regio AG will operate its Rhine Valley rail network in southwest Germany exclusively with multiple-unit regional trains supplied by...

World’s First “Formation Flying” Engineering Trains Upgrade the Railway Faster and Cheaper

World’s First “Formation Flying” Engineering Trains Upgrade the R...

In a bid to increase efficiencies and reduce delays for passengers, Network Rail is trialling “formation flying” engineering trains to repair and renew...

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