South Africa: Gibela starts construction of new train manufacturing site
Alstom’s South African joint venture company Gibela has started the construction of its new manufacturing site to build 580 suburban […]
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WMATA switches to SmarTrip cards
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) accepts only SmarTrip cards at the Washington rapid transit system Metrorail faregates starting […]
Georgia & Florida Railway deploys ISS
The Georgia & Florida Railway, LLC (GFRR), an affiliate of OmniTRAX, Inc., continues to make shipping by rail easy with […]
MotivePower to deliver more locomotives to Metrolinx
MotivePower, a subsidiary of Wabtec Corporation, has delivered a prototype locomotive to Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario […]
Aselsan inks railway deal with Spanish company Indra
Railway PRO at Eurasia Rail: Turkish defense manufacturer Aselsan announced that it had signed an agreement with Spain’s Indra to […]
Turkey to issue a tender for 80 high speed trains
Railway PRO at Eurasia Rail: Turkey plans to open a tender to acquire 80 high-speed trains by the middle of […]
Alstom hackathon for new ideas on Paris metro
Alstom will organize a hackathon based on the connected metro, in collaboration with Ecole 42, a French computer programming school […]
SNCF and Aéroports de Paris to build CDG Express
French government has published an order in the Official Journal to build CDG Express, the new high speed rail link […]
RZD wants to develop and operate modern rolling stock
“Transport engineering products accounted for 11% or RUB 119 billion (USD 1.6 billion) of the total procurement of Russian Railways […]
DB Schenker Rail has been renamed DB Cargo
Deutsche Bahn’s rail freight business becomes DB Cargo and will use the DB logo going forward. The name of the […]