16+ hour, 56+ min ago  (476+ words) USA: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Siemens Mobility and LK Comstock a design-and-build contract to deploy communications-based train control on the Subway's A and C lines serving the Fulton Avenue corridor in Brooklyn and Queens. The contract involves…...

23+ hour, 33+ min ago  (318+ words) EUROPE: Semi-trailer by rail transport specialist Cargo Beamer has expanded its routes as part of its ambitions to offer a "dense, high-frequency intermodal network across the Alps. A service transporting semi-trailers by rail between the DUSS Terminal in Kornwestheim near…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (341+ words) AUSTRALIA: Railway construction company Martinus Group has announced the launch of its own rail freight haulage business for the Australian and international markets, and has signed a strategic partnership with Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Ziyang. "This is a big…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (215+ words) HUNGARY: Prime Minister-elect P'ter Magyar has nominated public transport specialist D'vid Vit'zy " a former head of Budapest transport authority BKK " to serve as the country's next Minister of Transport & Investment. Vit'zy started as a public transport campaigner before he was…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (589+ words) UAE: Approval for the 34bn dirham Gold Line metro project was announced by Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on April 22. He directed that the project commence immediately. Tenders are to be called this year, with the construction contract…...

4+ day, 34+ min ago  (337+ words) South Africa's Railway Safety Regulator is working to support the 11 new operators expected to enter into the country's freight market over the coming years, whilst addressing the potential safety risks, as CEO Brian Monakali explains to Benj'min Zelki. Monakali says…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (398+ words) FRANCE: Velvet has unveiled an Alstom Avelia Horizon trainset in its livery, as the high speed new entrant prepares to compete against SNCF as France's first domestic private entrant with its own new-build fleet. Production of Velvet's trains is spread…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (434+ words) This week's news from the global railway supply chain. Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail is to hold its 2026 Industry Day on April 27. The online event will provide a practical overview of the project's latest developments, the next wave of…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (283+ words) PORTUGAL: The European Commission has authorised Metropolitano de Lisboa to move ahead with awarding the contract for Lisbon's Violet line, but only after a Mota-Engil-led consortium replaced its original subcontractor, China's CRRC, with an EU-based company following Brussels' finding that…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (455+ words) Alstom CEO Martin Sion has warned that delayed rolling stock projects and weak cash generation had left the group "not at the level you should expect from a market leader," as the release of the company's latest financial results wiped…...