SPAIN: The Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes Ferroviarios has told national infrastructure manager ADIF that the final report on the derailments at Adamuz will take several more months to ...

EUROPE: Multimodal travel booking platform Omio Group has agreed to acquire rail distribution specialist Rail Europe. The expanded Omio Group would sell 22 million train tickets per year. The ...

AUSTRALIA: Transwa’s Australind passenger service has restarted following the delivery of the first of four Alstom diesel multiple-units ordered for the 167 km route between Perth and Bunbury. Trains ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. In June Delhi Metro Rail Corp officially commenced work at Central Secretariat for the 9.9 km Central Vista Corridor extension of ...

Israel Railways Ltd. (“ISR”), in accordance with its obligations under the Israeli Mandatory Tender Laws and its implementing regulations and the International Agreement on Government Procurement, ...

While the recent ‘reset’ of Britain’s High Speed 2 is a clear reflection of a mismanaged programme, Railway Gazette International‘s Executive Editor Nick Kingsley argues that the real lesson lies in ...

EUROPE: The proposed EU passenger rights package aims to simplify rail travel, but campaign group Transport & Environment has warned that the changes ‘barely make any improvement’ for longer ...

CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Group is to install ETCS software developed by its affiliate The Signalling Company on newly manufactured rolling stock for the first time, equipping 34 tri-mode trainsets being ...

As well as expanding services domestically and putting more high speed trains in service, South Korea’s national operator is working on securing more contracts internationally. Kim Taeseung, newly ...

Having opened its first light rail line in 1978, the city of Edmonton is now working on the development of its Valley Line, and extensions to both older routes, focusing on streetscaping and better ...

EGYPT: An Alstom-led consortium has signed four contracts worth €690m with Egyptian National Railways for the modernisation of two strategic freight rail corridors. Together with Rowad Modern ...

POLAND: Pesa Bydgoszcz and Japan’s Hitachi Rail have signed a strategic co-operation agreement covering the development and manufacturing of high speed and double-deck trains and the transfer of ...