CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission has cancelled a competitive tender for the supply of metro trainsets in favour of a single ...

UK: Great Western Railway has awarded Alstom a £75m eight-year Technical Support & Spares Supply Agreement for the 26 Class ...

SWITZERLAND: Appenzeller Bahnen has applied to the Federal Office of Transport for permission to convert its 1·96 km Rheineck ...

ITALY: RFI has awarded a €1·6bn contract for the construction of a 22·2 km double-track connection mostly in tunnel between ...

INDIA: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd has commissioned feasibility studies for three commuter lines and detailed project reports into ...

UK: Worksop-based Explore has divested its Civil Plant & Tool Hire division as part of a strategy to focus on its Transport ...

GERMANY: ForCity Plus 47T trams supplied by Škoda Group officially entered passenger service in Cottbus on August 15.

Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp is investing in technology to manage surging demand while it awaits the arrival of more trains.

POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded GRAW a contract to supply inspection vehicles and software that would ...

UK: Great Western Railway has set a world record for the furthest distance travelled by a battery-electric train on a single ...

FINLAND: Rolling stock owning company Suomen Ostoliikennekalusto has been created to facilitate government plans to tender the operation of publicly-funded passenger rail services.

USA: Amtrak’s twice-daily Mardi Gras Service between Mobile and New Orleans launched on August 18, after an inaugural train ran two days before.