Petersburg Metro receives first metro cars from OEVRZ
Oktyabrsky Electric Railway Car Repair Plant (OEVRZ), part of Transmashholding Group, delivered to Petersburg Metro 6 Yubeleyny metro cars of […]
Europe Leads
Italy allocates EUR 214 million for Calabria railway projects
Graziano Delrio, Italian Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, gave the green light to a financial allocation of EUR 214 million […]
EUR 32 million for Stockholm Central Station overhaul
Trafikverket, Sweden’s Transport Authority, has awarded Sweco consulting company a contract for redesigning and upgrading Stockholm Central Station. The works […]
Stadler renames EC250 high-speed train as SMILE
Following a public competition, Stadler Rail has chosen the name for its new line of high-speed EC250 trains: SMILE. The […]
Record numbers for WiFi services usage at Russian rail stations
More than half a million newly connected users were registered this summer for the WiFi services in Russia’s rail stations. […]
Latvia sees small increase in rail freight in 7 months
Freight transport on the Latvian railway infrastructure amounted to 27.237 million tons in the first seven months of this year, […]
Russia: Aeroexpress reports almost 100% punctuality of train services
Aeroexpress train services have improved accuracy from 99.8% last year to 99.9% in the first half of this year on […]
Companies plead for re-opening the Rhine Alpine Rail Freight Corridor
Freight transporters, intermodal operators and the Port of Rotterdam have expressed their concern on the closure of the railway line […]
UK: Virgin Trains tests Azuma train in Scotland
Virgin Trains’s state-of-the-art Azuma train has debuted in Scotland for the first time as part of plans to transform Edinburgh-London […]
BDZ to launch tender for rolling stock in autumn
Bulgarian state-owned railway operator BDZ intends to launch a tender for the delivery of rolling stock in the autumn, Transport […]