SLOVAKIA: VTG has strengthened its position in the Germany - eastern Europe rail freight market by acquiring the remaining shares in Retrack Slovakia and its Hungarian and Czech subsidiaries from Rail ...

USA: Union Tank Car Co is to provide wagon cleaning and repair services at 225 Rail's storage facility at Pasadena in Texas.

ITALY: Arenaways launched revenue services under a public service obligation contract on the 49 km Cuneo - Savigliano line ...

UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has released a standard promoting the wider use of Coordinated Universal Time and the ...

Dutch rail freight software company RailCube has acquired Spark TS, a US-based rail industry compliance, safety and drug & ...

UK: Northern has taken delivery of a prototype of the semi-immersive static cab simulators it has ordered as part of a ‘major transformation’ of its training which aims to speed up the time it takes ...

POLAND: The first of 30 Moderus Gamma LF 04 AC BD trams that operator MPK Poznań’s in-house manufacturer Modertrans is supplying arrived at Franowo depot on January 21. The vehicles are being built at ...

FRANCE: Incumbent SNCF Voyageurs has beaten Spain's RENFE and high speed start-up Le Train to win the government's first tendered contract for the operation of Intercités services on the conventional ...

UK: High speed line project promoter HS2 Ltd has launched its seventh Innovation Accelerator programme, with six SMEs selected to develop ideas for automating asset management, maximising site ...

USA: Infrastructure investor Ancala has launched short line rail business Phoenix Rail, with its first deal being the ...