TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp has commissioned Systra to lead a feasibility study for a proposed three-line monorail network in Dar es Salaam, where the rapidly growing population is projected to ...

INTERNATIONAL: Plasser & Theurer has announced a restructuring of the investments held by the Max-Thuerer family, affecting the holding company model for the track machine producer as well as the ...

JMT Industrie launched as a holding company for Theurer family’s track machinery businesses INTERNATIONAL: Plasser & Theurer has announced a restructuring of the investments held by the Max-Thuerer ...

EUROPE: The European Union Agency for Railways has acknowledged that ERTMS specifications were put into EU law before they were mature, contributing to repeated changes and national variants. ‘It’s ...

JMT Industrie launched as a holding company for Theurer family’s track machinery businesses INTERNATIONAL: Plasser & Theurer has announced a restructuring of the investments held by the Max-Thuerer ...

AUSTRALIA: Technology company 4Tel has commissioned digital movement authorities for the Australian Rail Track Corp on more than 1 500 km of its network across New South Wales, replacing a highly ...

The Royal Commission for Riyadh City has awarded Alstom a €460m contract to supply additional Metropolis driverless metro trainsets for used on lines 3 (Orange), 4 (Yellow) and 6 (Purple). Alstom said ...

UKRAINE: A roadmap for gradually opening the rail freight and passenger markets to competition has been approved, setting out the next steps in the long-running reform of national railway ...

GERMANY: An agreement in principle has been reached for defence company Rheinmetall to acquire Alstom’s locomotive factory in Kassel, the two companies have told. Alstom currently produces Traxx ...

POLAND: The partly underground fourth phase of Kraków’s fast tram network opened to passengers on September 26 after an inauguration ceremony the previous day. The 4.5 km extension from Wieczysta ...

MOROCCO: National railway ONCF has taken delivery of five diesel locomotives from CRRC Ziyang and 22 inter-city coaches purchased secondhand from Italy’s national operator Trenitalia. The five ...

EUROPE: The Slovenian national operator’s maintenance subsidiary SŽ-VIT has completed its first overhaul of a Siemens Mobility Vectron electric locomotive, which was returned to leasing company Beacon ...