Latest Rolling Stock News
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12 Must-Read Rail News Stories – Industry Insider for Week 6
All the important rail news of the week, summed up for you in one place: our Railway-News Industry Insider for 4–8 February 2019.
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Skoda Delivers Last of 250 ForCity Alfa Praha Trams to Prague
Skoda Transportation has delivered the last of 250 ForCity Alfa Praha trams to the city of Prague in what was the company's biggest contract…
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Talgo Wins Contract with Deutsche Bahn for 23 Long-Distance Trains
Talgo wins contract with Deutsche Bahn: the two companies have signed a framework agreement as well as a contract for 23 long-distance train…
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Bombardier M7 Double-Decker Train Wins Design Award
The Bombardier M7 double-decker train has landed the transportation company and Yellow Window industrial design agency the Gold Public award…
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Transmashholding Wins Baku Metro Contract for Six Five-Car Trains
Metrowagonmash, which is part of Transmashholding, and Baku Metro have signed a contract for thirty metro cars. They will be of the type 81-…
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Transmashholding to Ship 23 Freight and Passenger Locomotives to Cuba
Transmashholding (TMH) and import agency Tradex have signed a contract for 23 LDE-2500 diesel locomotives. The customer is Ferrocarriles de …
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China: CRRC Subsidiary Tests New Maglev Generation
CRRC Zhuzhou tested a new generation of maglev trains with an operating speed of 160km/h. The traction efficiency of this new model is 30% h…
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7 Must-Read Rail News Stories – Industry Insider for Week 4
All the important rail news of the week, summed up for you in one place: our Railway-News Industry Insider for 21–25 January 2019.
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United Wagon Company Delivers 60 Heavy Duty Flat Cars to TransContainer
Russian freight car manufacturer UWC has completed a contract for 60 heavy duty flat cars. TransContainer required these bogies to have an e…
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CRRC to Manufacture 22 Trains for Egypt
Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC announced today that its subsidiary, CRRC Sifang, has won a contract to develop and manufacture 22 t…
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Belarusian Railway Buys 10 Stadler Broad-Gauge FLIRT Trains
Belarusian Railway, which operates the entire rail network in Belarus, has signed a contract with Stadler for ten FLIRT trains. The trains i…
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9 Must-Read Rail News Stories – Industry Insider for Week 3
All the important rail news of the week, summed up for you in one place: our Railway-News Industry Insider for 14–18 January 2019. Find out …
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Renfe Awards 3 Rolling Stock Maintenance Contracts to Alstom
Spanish rail operator Renfe has awarded three maintenance contracts to Alstom. They cover full maintenance services for 15 Avelia Pendolino …
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Alstom's Coradia Polyvalent Train Takes First Trip in Senegal
Alstom's Coradia Polyvalent train undertook its first trip in Senegal on 14 January 2019. Both Alstom and APIX, the agency that promotes inv…
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Stadler to Deliver Additional Narrow-Gauge Trains to Southeast Italy
Apulia, Italy: Ferrovie Appulo Lucane (FAL) have placed a follow-up order for Stadler narrow-gauge trains. The framework contract is for 8 t…
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13 Must-Read Rail News Stories – Industry Insider for Weeks 1 and 2
We are back with the Railway-News Industry Insider for weeks 1 and 2 (1–11 January 2019): the railway industry's latest news, covering North…
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Skånetrafiken Receives Final 30 Coradia Nordic Regional Trains from Alstom
Swedish public transport operator Skånetrafiken has received the final 30 Coradia Nordic regional trains from Alstom. This completes orders …
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CRRC Rolling Stock Orders Worth Almost 6 Billion Dollars
Chinese company CRRC announced it signed a number of contracts in December worth 40.84 billion Chinese Yuan in total. The main buyer of CRRC…
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Alstom and Eversholt Rail Reveal New Hydrogen Train Design for the UK
Alstom and ROSCO Eversholt Rail have revealed a new hydrogen train design for the United Kingdom. They have named this train 'Breeze'. Alsto…
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Eurostar Offers Third Direct Rail Service from London to Amsterdam
Since April 2018 Eurostar has offered passengers two direct rail services from London to Amsterdam via Rotterdam. The third direct rail serv…
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MTR Corporation Gets New Generation of Light Rail Vehicles
On 28 December MTR received two new light rail vehicles. MTR accepted the new vehicles at its Tuen Man depot in Hong Kong. MTR ordered 40 ne…