3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (134+ words) THE head of China's National Railway Administration (NRA) from 2022 to 2025, Dongbin Fei, has been indicted on charges of bribery. A graduate of Changsha Railway College, Fei began his career at the Shenyang Railway Bureau in Liaoning in 1991, where he later…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (202+ words) FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) subsidiary SNCF Passenger has signed a 10-year contract worth "1. 8bn with the Sud region, also known as Provence-Alpes-C'te d'Azur (PACA), to operate Lot 3 of the region's TER network. The contract was signed in Marseille on May 6 in…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (238+ words) International Railway Journal SNCF Passenger signs operating contract with Sud region Derailment detectors go live on Gotthard Base Tunnel approaches Bangladesh secures locomotive funding THE Ministry of Railways has submitted a proposal to the Bangladesh Planning Commission to procure 30 new…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (352+ words) GERMAN Rail (DB), Danish State Railways (DSB) and Norwegian state-owned passenger operator Vy have announced that they will launch a new direct service from Berlin to Oslo via Copenhagen in summer 2028. The services will be operated with DB ICE L…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (324+ words) HHR's share of the construction market was boosted by winning a five-year contract to haul aggregates for Breedon from quarries at Dowlow in the Peak District and Shap in Cumbria to its terminals at Ashbury in Greater Manchester and Walsall…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (223+ words) International Railway Journal First MI20 EMU for Paris RER Line B unveiled Unife wants Europe's polluters to pay for future high-speed network Major tunnelling contract awarded for Hudson Tunnel Project Vietnam approves $US 10bn privately-financed commuter line THE city of Da Nang…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (200+ words) International Railway Journal Slovakia secures EU funding for BEMU fleet order Algeria acquires new wagon fleet ALGERIAN National Railways (SNTF) has signed a contract worth around Dinars 14bn (110m) with national rolling stock manufacturer Ferrovial to acquire 800 wagons for the transport of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (200+ words) SLOVAKIAN passenger operator ZSSK has secured "144m to finance the purchase of 16 new BEMUs for regional services. The state-owned company has concluded a non-refundable agreement with the Ministry of Transport, with funding coming from European Union (EU) programmes including the Slovak…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (248+ words) Austria: Stadler has opened a fleet maintenance facility in Obersiebenbrunn near Vienna. The new site, including a 225m-long main workshop, will also commission and test new Stadler rolling stock. Since March, Westbahn's Smile trains have been maintained at the 4600m" facility,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (353+ words) International Railway Journal Nominations open for IRJ's Women in Rail Award 2026 EC clears Lisbon light rail bid of distortive foreign subsidies Velvet unveils first completed high-speed train FRENCH high-speed new entrant Velvet has unveiled the first of 12 Avelia Horizon double-deck…...