USA: Mid-market utility, power and transport investor Basalt Infrastructure Partners has agreed to acquire track maintenance plant and road-rail vehicle leasing company RELAM from Paceline Equity ...

National operator DSB is working on a pioneering programme to equip København’s S-bane for fully automated operation without using platform edge barriers. Contracts are due to be let later this year ...

IRELAND: Transport Infrastructure Ireland has launched the tendering process for the M500 contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the planned MetroLink automated metro line. It will ...

EUROPE The European Commission proposed a comprehensive package of three regulations on May 13 designed to simplify the booking of multi-leg rail journeys across Europe. The new rules aim to establish ...

AUSTRALIA: The government has announced A$1.75bn of funding for rail freight, but has stopped development of the northern section of the 1 600 km Inland Rail project. This would have allowed the ...

PORTUGAL: The European Commission has authorised Metropolitano de Lisboa to move ahead with awarding the contract for Lisboa’s Violet light rail line, but only after a Mota-Engil-led consortium ...

Although there has been relatively little change to the world’s fastest scheduled train services in the past two years, further developments are in prospect as more new lines and faster trains come on ...

BULGARIA: Plans have been announced for rehabilitation of the 39 km railway between Yambol and Elhovo and the construction of a 32 km alignment between Elhovo and Lesovo. BULGARIA: Plans have been ...

POLAND: Wielkopolskie voivodship has awarded Stadler a contract to supply Flirt electric multiple-units, with the Marshal’s office saying the trainsets are needed because residents have come to love ...

To be served by high speed, regional, suburban and metro trains, La Sagrera station taking shape to the northeast of Barcelona is set to become the city’s largest multimodal interchange, handling ...

April is due to see the start of commercial passenger services with an autonomous train in the Czech Republic, as AŽD Praha launches demonstration GoA3 operations on its Dolní Bousov – Kopidlno test ...

Geological difficulties have delayed the completion of the Hokkaido Shinkansen extension to Sapporo beyond 2030, while JR Hokkaido is considering the deployment of 160 to 200 km/h EMUs on its 1 067 mm ...