USA: The United States Trade Commission has determined that US manufacturers have been materially injured by couplers and parts from the Czech Republic and India being sold in the USA at less than ...

USA: Siemens Mobility has been selected to supply and maintain three American Pioneer 220 trainsets for the California High Speed Rail project’s Initial Operating Section between Bakersfield and ...

FRANCE: Engineering contractor TSO Group is looking to grow the turnover of its rail business threefold by 2030, according to Chief Executive Romaud Hughes. Speaking to Railway Gazette International ...

POLAND: A consortium of BPK Poznań, Biuro Projektów Kolejowych i Usług Inwestycyjnych and FONON has completed planning of the GSM-R radio network for the 120 km Warszawa Zachodnia – future airport – ...

Turnout manufacturer DT Výhybkárna a Strojírna is now using a robotic welding cell to manufacture small components used to secure rails to sleepers. DTVS said international orders now account for 40% ...

BRAZIL: The federal government has published a list of major rail projects for which bids could be called next year. These include the construction or rehabilitation and operation of freight corridors ...

Transnet Freight Rail says it has set a world record for the longest train, a 7 602 m long formation which ran on the Sishen – Saldanha heavy haul freight line. The train comprised 696 empty CR13/14 ...

UKRAINE: France’s Métropole Européenne de Lille is to donate 23 surplus trams to help the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv maintain public transport services during the war. Lille is to begin putting new ...

UKRAINE: An agreement to undertake detailed studies for two projects to improve rail links between the Zakarpattia region and neighbouring EU countries has been signed by the Ministry of ...

INTERNATIONAL: Th Union of Railways and a consortium of European railways have launched the Rail Service Data Exchange initiative to define a common standard for exchanging maintenance, engineering ...

NETHERLANDS: ProRail’s Chief Executive Mirjam van Velthuizen-Lormans has said that the infrastructure manager is ‘pleased with the cabinet’s plans’ under the latest national budget. Funding ...

SERBIA: The first of nine electric multiple-units ordered to operate on a new railway which will link Beograd, Nikola Tesla Airport and the future National Stadium near the Expo 2027 site was unveiled ...