SPAIN: Investigations have begun into a collision between two high speed trains near Toledo that has left at least 64 people dead, according to Transport Minister Óscar Puente. The incident occurred ...

AZERBAIJAN: National railway ADY has signed a contract for China’s CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive to supply four electric inter-city trainsets to support its efforts to modernise the fleet and expand rail ...

RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Demikhovo factory has completed assembly of a hydrogen fuel cell powered passenger trainset for operation on the island of Sakhalin, and work is underway on a second. The ...

TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding with Egyptian construction group Arab Contractors to reassess proposals for a 1 000 km standard gauge Southern Railway which ...

EUROPE: The opening of the 55 km Brenner Base Tunnel between Austria and Italy has been put back to 2034 and the expected cost has risen to €11.7bn, project promoter BBT SE has announced. The cost had ...

ARGENTINA: CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles has unveiled in China the first of 10 five-car trainsets it is building for Buenos Aires metro lines A and C. The vehicles were ordered in January 2025 to ...

SPAIN: Renfe has selected Siemens Mobility as the winner of a contract to supply 30 high speed trainsets with a design speed of 350 km/h. The national train operator said the expansion of its fleet ...

Pandrol is to open a rail fastening factory in Riyadh in conjunction with local company Links Investments. Production is planned to begin in the first half of 2027, supplying projects in Saudi Arabia ...

Port Polska’s Centre for Transport and Mobility (Polish: Centrum Transportu i Mobilności – CTM) combines demand forecasting, timetable planning, railway microsimulation and technical expertise to ...

EUROPE: Trackside ERTMS deployment needs to accelerate almost fivefold to meet national plans, but a European Commission study warns that fragmentation and supplier dependency could drive costs higher ...

The railway system moves whole stalk cane to the four sugar mills owned by the Fiji Sugar Corporation, situated on the two larger islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. In Viti Levu the mills are at ...

NETHERLANDS: The cabinet has halted €270m of government funding which had been earmarked for capacity upgrades on the RandstadRail and Rotterdam metro networks. While rolling stock purchases will ...