UK: ‘Passengers will see bread and butter improvements to their services’, the Department for Transport said when Britain’s biggest train operator transferred to the public sector as part of the ...

TURKEY: The Ministry for Transport & Infrastructure has invited expressions of interest in contracts to support the development of the 127 km Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project to build a railway ...

Although there has been relatively little change to the world’s fastest scheduled train services in the past two years, further developments are in prospect as more new lines and faster trains come on ...

No fewer than 11 private freight train operators have been granted conditional access to the Transnet network under the government’s rail reform programme. Market opening offers hope that declining ...

Field trials are currently under way with an AI-assisted real-time monitoring system able to detect the emergence of scour that could undermine the safety of railway bridges over flowing water. Scour ...

ASIA: President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov and representatives of the Chinese and Uzbek governments officially launched construction of the US$8bn China – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan railway with a ...

Bringing together public and private sector partners, the Sequence Signalling & Systems Alliance is pressing ahead with the introduction of ETCS Level 2 train control across the South East Queensland ...

EUROPE: CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co and a local partner are to build a rolling stock manufacturing plant in Hungary from which to supply vehicles for the European market. EUROPE: Hungarian group Acemil ...

April is due to see the start of commercial passenger services with an autonomous train in the Czech Republic, as AŽD Praha launches demonstration GoA3 operations on its Dolní Bousov – Kopidlno test ...

Belgian state railway operator NMBS/SNCB will stop selling tickets on board of its trains from 1 July 2026, as part of a broader crackdown on fare evasion and aggression towards staff. With the move, ...

Acting as a guiding mind in terms of redesigning and reallocating capacity, ADIF Alta Velocidad helped to stimulate demand for high speed rail travel in Spain, challenging the belief that ...

Railway Gazette International looks at the current state of progress to create Great British Railways as the public sector body which will run the national rail network. December 9 saw a key milestone ...