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The rail industry in the UK is bracing for a sharp rise in vandalism over the summer. The spike in incidents follows a pattern of the traditional summer…
The rail industry in the UK is bracing for a sharp rise in vandalism over the summer. The spike in incidents follows a pattern of the traditional summer…
Anyone visiting the website will notice straight away: as of today, RailTech looks different. We have invested in a new layout in order to better present our articles…
A new Manchester city and airport service to London has been proposed. The franchised operator London Northwestern Railway has set out plans to extend its existing services between…
Rail Baltica Estonia OÜ and Tariston AS signed a contract in Rapla on Tuesday for the construction of the Hagudi-Alu section of the railway line in Rapla County,…
The internationally operating engineering consultancy company Ricardo Rail has produced the energy usage estimates for rail operations on three forthcoming lines on the Paris Metro. This allows Public…
After weeks of disruption, culminating in a virtual meltdown of services over the past weekend, passenger services in Scotland have entered an open-ended period of ‘emergency timetable operations’.…
The new Labour Party government has announced its team of ministers in charge of transport. The new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has appointed his shadow team to the…
Russia has approved plans to build a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The 679-kilometre railway should make it possible to travel between the country’s two…
The UK railway industry has expressed high hopes for change in the legislative regime, commensurate with the new government elected last week. The supply chain, represented by the…
The first Stadler FLIRT trains with ECTS Guardia signalling system are now in service in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, as part of a fleet managed by the…
Some say endless jobs are “like painting the Forth Bridge”. In the West Country, they may well say it’s more like “track renewals in the Severn Tunnel”. Less…
The British General Election has seen a sweeping change of government in Westminster. The left-wing Labour Party has taken an overall majority. They have won more than 400…
VTG Rail’s UK operation has claimed a world first for its iWagon system. The advanced black box technology has been adopted as standard for the rolling stock of…
Last Sunday, the long-awaited ‘Three Country Train’ was incorporated into an international timetable. Travellers can now travel between Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany) and almost…
The only off-shore self-contained railway in the British Isles faces a temporary closure. The line on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, requires immediate…