AUSTRIA: Plasser & Theurer officially opened a €60m track machine final assembly and commissioning facility at its Pummererstraβe site in Linz on October 16, saying it represents the largest single ...

SLOVAKIA: National passenger operator ZSSK has signed a €266m contract with a consortium of Škoda Group and ŽOS Trnava for eight seven-car electric multiple units. Signed at InnoTrans 2026 in Berlin, ...

INDIA: Alstom has rolled out the first of 39 Metropolis six-car driverless metro trainsets for the future Mumbai lines 4 and 4A, saying the train was engineered and built in a record time of 14 months ...

Knorr-Bremse’s Executive Board Member for Rail Dr Nicolas Lange explains to Nick Kingsley about globalisation, how the company has moved beyond a self-limiting portfolio and his hopes for a successor ...

The Wirye Line tramway in Seoul is set to open this year as the first modern tram line in South Korea, followed by a 38.1 km line in Daejeon. However, the already-tendered Ulsan tramway is being ...

PORTUGAL: Construction of Portugal’s first high speed line was formally launched with a ceremony on October 12. Diogo Ferreira Nunes reports from Aveiro. The north-south high speed rail corridor ...

GERMANY: Siemens Mobility has been awarded what it says is the world’s largest battery train order, a contract worth more than €2bn covering the supply of 113 three-car Mireo Plus B battery-electric ...

AUSTRALIA: Rail freight operator Aurizon’s A$60m terminal in the Kewdale suburb of Perth has been officially opened by Western Australia’s Minister for Transport & Major Infrastructure Rita Saffioti.

No less than 1 444.9 km of Chinese high speed lines opened between June and the end of September. Reflecting the challenging topography now facing builders, bridges and tunnels account for 88% of the ...

TURKEY: Ministers formally inaugurated the 153 km Çerkezköy – Kapıkule section of the Halkalı – Kapıkule railway on October 9, representing the latest step in the creation of a double-track ...

USA: Construction has finished on a $192m extension of the MetroLink light rail system to MidAmerica St Louis Airport in Illinois. The 8.4 km line from Shiloh-Scott Transit Center marks the St Louis ...

FRANCE: SNCF-owned rolling stock maintenance and engineering services specialist Masteris is seeking to win more work outside its home market as the opening of the domestic passenger rail sector to ...