Contractor selected for Tacoma Link extension
The Sound Transit Board of Directors selected HDR Engineering, Inc. to provide final design services for the Tacoma Link Expansion […]
August 2016
CRRC Nanjing Puzhen to deliver 40 LRVs to MTR
MTR Corp awarded CRRC Nanjing Puzhen a contract for the acquisition of 40 light rail vehicles that will replace 30 […]
PKP Cargo receives three more Vectron locomotives
Siemens has delivered three more Vectron multisystem locomotives to PKP Cargo, that are used for connections outside of the country. […]
USD 119 million available for PTC implementation
The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that it will accept applications for USD 199 million in competitive grant funding […]
Nigeria opens its first standard gauge line
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has officialy launched the Abuja – Kaduna railway line, as the first country’s standard gauge line […]
Turkish company wins Dnipropetrovsk metro line contract
Limak Construction, a Turkish company, and Dnipropetrovsk City have signed a EUR 224 million contract to build a new metro […]
First Elizabeth line train takes to the test track
UK’s TfL and Bombardier have unveiled ‘Class 345’ train, the first of the new state-of-the-art Elizabeth line trains for Crossrail. […]
New safety rule for US rail passenger operators
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a new final rule which requires passenger railway companies […]
DRS unveils the first dual-mode Class 88 locomotive
Direct Rail Services (DRS) has presented its first dual-mode Class 88 locomotives, 88002, with tests completed in Czech Republic. The […]
UTLC marks its 500th container train between China and Europe
Since the beginning of 2016, the United Transport & Logistics Company (UTLC) has dispatched 500 container trains between China and […]