Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos geležinkeliai) will upgrade 14 major level crossings. The state-owned railway company will also invest 10 million Euros...Lithuanian Railways upgrades major level crossings
The TransJerusalem J-Net consortium consisting of the CAF Group and the Israeli construction firm Shapir will extend the Jerusalem Light...Jerusalem selects contractors to extend light rail network
Polish state-owned railway holding PKP S.A. is extending the network of the electric vehicle charging points located at the country’s...Poland equips train stations with EV chargers
Dutch Railways orders extra ICNG trains
Dutch railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has ordered an additional batch of the InterCity Next Generation (ICNG) trains from Alstom. The French manufacturer will supply 18 eight-car units. They will run on the high-speed route...Read more
RegioJet will launch three-country train in Central Europe
Czech private railway operator RegioJet will launch a new passenger train in June 2020. It will connect three countries in Central Europe: Czechia, Austria and Hungary. The new service will run from Prague to Budapest...Read more
Softil supports Siemens in developing LTE-R solutions
Siemens Mobility has chosen the BEEHD client framework to develop the next generation of the Long Term Evolution-Railway (LTE-R) networks. This technology will be also used for the development of the new mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT)...Read more
Dutch start-up Castlab produces obsolete train parts
Castlab from the Dutch city of Tilburg has won an Innovation Award in the Start-ups category at RailTech Europe. The business, which is only 11 months old, can produce and deliver obsolete metal train parts...Read more
Trenitalia seeks supplier for 250 electric trains
Italy’s state-owned rail operator Trenitalia has launched the procurement process for the purchase of 250 electric multiple units. The overall cost of the trains is circa 2.7 billion Euros. 250 single-deck vehicles will be used...Read more
Bombardier to supply 70 monorail vehicles to Egypt
The consortium led by Bombardier Transportation has signed an agreement with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels on the design and construction of two new monorail lines in Cairo. 70 four-car monorail vehicles will be supplied...Read more
Maintenance works at Dutch largest classification yard postponed
The maintenance works at Kijfhoek classification yard were postponed for an unknown time. In order not to suspend the train traffic, the Dutch rail infrastructure manager ProRail and the contractor Swietelsky decided to delay the...Read more
Modernisation of busiest railway line in Belgium draws to close
From 14 October to 11 November, the Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel will perform the modernisation works at the Brussels-South station. It is the final stage of the project to upgrade the railway corridor between...Read more
New Polish tram debuts in Poznan
The public transport operator MPK Poznań has introduced into service the Moderus Gamma LF03AC BD tram. It is a new type of the bidirectional low-floor vehicle manufactured by Modertrans Poznań, the operator’s subsidiary focused on...Read more
Transmashholding sets up two joint ventures in Hungary
Russian rolling stock group Transmashholding (TMH) has set up two joint ventures – TMH Hungary Invest and Transmashholding Hungary (TMH Hungary). With their help, TMH will participate in the exclusive negotiations with the Government of...Read more