Design for entrance to London Bridge station revealed
As part of the Thameslink Programme’s rebuilding of the station a new public space will take shape outside London Bridge, […]
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Hokkaido Shinkansen to be launched in March 2016
Hokkaido Railway Co. and East Japan Railway Co announced that Hokkaido Shinkansen Line will be put into commercial service on […]
Hitachi eyes EUR 4.5 bn in annual railway business sales
Japanese company Hitachi will aim to boost annual sales at its British-based railway business 1.5-fold to around 600 billion yen […]
Addis Ababa LRT officially opened
The capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa officially opened the first light rail network in Sub-Saharan Africa, after several months of […]
Great Western Railway unveils rebranded trains
Rebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) trains have been unveiled by the firm formerly known as First Great Western. Starting with […]
Qatar Rail sets Guinness record
Qatar Rail on entered the Guinness Book of World Records for simultaneously operating the maximum number of tunnel boring machines […]
Reloc – Electroputere VFU Craiova developed the first Romanian locomotive operating exclusively on biodiesel or vegetable oil
An eco-friendly locomotive engine, which operates exclusively on biodiesel or vegetable oil with no diesel added and has the same […]
Poland launches the first tender under National Railway Programme
Poland’s railway infrastructure manager PKP PLK launched the tender on Warsaw – Bialystok railway line modernization project. This tender opens […]
Ukraine: economic sanctions affected Freight One’s local activity
The Ukrainian economic sanctions have affected Russia’s biggest railway operator Freight One and its 100% Ukrainian subsidiary LLC Freight One, […]
Kazakhstan to commission USD 412 million rail plant
Kazakhstan plans to commission the Aktobe rail and structural steel plant in December 2015, the Development Bank of Kazakhstan announced. […]