RUSSIA: Roscosmos company UKVZ has delivered a 1 435 mm gauge variant of the widely-used Type 71-623 tram for testing in Rostov-on-Don, the only Russian tram network to use standard gauge. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A round-up of recent rail industry contract awards around the world, compiled b. Australia: An alliance of Acciona, WSP, Metro Trains Melbourne and VIDA Rail has been awarded a contract to close level ...