The first units are expected to be operational by the first half of 2027. Credit: Metro de Madrid. The Community of Madrid has announced an investment of €504m ($542.7m) to acquire a new fleet of 40 ...

Ansaldo STS is a leading international technology company operating in the global railway and mass-transit transportation business, providing traffic management, planning, train control and signalling ...

VDS Rail produces onboard networking Ethernet devices and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for the railway industry. VDS Rail is an Italian manufacturer of highly reliable onboard networking Ethernet ...

The popularity of driverless metro lines has grown exponentially since the first one was inaugurated in 1981, in Kobe, Japan. Metros built since have had enviable records in safety, flexibility, ...

Sewage from train toilets continues to be emptied onto certain railway lines in the UK, despite vows by authorities to stop this practice. A House of Commons briefing paper from 2017 estimated that ...

The original Thameslink project led to through passenger trains being introduced on a core route between Bedford and Brighton via central London in 1988. Using the southern end of the Midland Main ...

Stadler will deliver a total of 46 five-car trains for Nexus. Credit: BELL KA PANG /Shutterstock. Metro operator Nexus has launched the first Stadler Class 555 Metro train for the Tyne and Wear Metro ...

New closures and suspensions around the country could leave entire regions completely isolated. Every day, France’s world-famous Trains à Grande Vitesse (TGV) run up and down the country connecting ...

High-speed railways combine both speed and efficiency. From the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan to the French TGV, high-speed trains have a history that spans several decades. The evolution of ...

Driverless train technology might not be a new concept for the world’s metro systems, but it’s still something of a contentious issue in public transport circles ...

Simon Periton, Spectre, 2016. Farringdon station (Elizabeth line). Commissioned as part of The Crossrail Art Programme. Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ. Photo: GG Archard, 2022 London’s new ...

Guangzhou Metro is a light rail transit system in the city of Guanghzou (formerly known as Canton) in China. It is the fourth metro system to be introduced in Mainland China.