Network Rail starts seeking investors for power infrastructure
Network Rail, the owner and operator of UK’s railway infrastructure, will be assessing interest in its electrical power assets from […]
March 2016
Teleste presents new solution for rapid data transfer for the rail industry
Teleste, an international technology group specialised in broadband video and data communication systems and services, announced its new technology for […]
Riga: go ahead for trams procurement procedure
The Procurement Monitoring Bureau has authorized Rigas Satiksme, the public transport company in Riga, to continue its procurement procedure for […]
Alstom receives ECM certification for maintaining locomotives
Alstom has obtained, for its locomotive maintenance activities at Belfort, the certification “Entity in Charge of Maintenance” (ECM). With this […]
South Africa: Gibela starts construction of new train manufacturing site
Alstom’s South African joint venture company Gibela has started the construction of its new manufacturing site to build 580 suburban […]
Switzerland introduces new Track Access Charging scheme
Switzerland will introduce a very accurate and advanced model to calculate track access charges in 2017. The new model will […]
Latvijas Dzelzcels records drop in profit
Latvian national rail company Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDz) achieved EUR 217.8 in net turnover in 2015. Compared to 2014, net turnover […]
RZD freight transport maintains levels
In January-February 2016, RZD loaded 188.963,200 t of freight, the same amount as in January-February 2015. In the reported period […]
WMATA switches to SmarTrip cards
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) accepts only SmarTrip cards at the Washington rapid transit system Metrorail faregates starting […]
Georgia & Florida Railway deploys ISS
The Georgia & Florida Railway, LLC (GFRR), an affiliate of OmniTRAX, Inc., continues to make shipping by rail easy with […]