Brazil is advancing plans for a $US 140m light rail network in Greater Aracaju, in the northeast of the country.

The French Ministry of Transport has granted new high-speed entrant Velvet an operating licence, with services due to start ...

Seibu Railway has reached an agreement with Hitachi Rail to modernise 144 cars from its Series 20000 EMU fleet.

New plans for a proposed 13km extension of the Tyne & Wear Metro in northern England have been unveiled by public transport ...

Indonesian state-owned operator PT KAI is planning a major rolling stock renewal programme to replace life-expired equipment.

Costa Rica has shifted development of the proposed Tren Huetar freight railway to a public-sector initiative supported by ...

Bolivoa has begun restoring the railway between Sucre and Potosí, as it pursues the restoration of passenger services on the ...

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Metroselskabet has selected KBH Metro Partner to operate and maintain the Copenhagen’s 43km four-line metro network under a ...

FIVE manufacturers have been shortlisted by ScotRail to supply its new suburban train fleet. Alstom, CAF, Hitachi Rail, ...

Madrid Metro has started dynamic testing of the first driverless trains for fully automated Line 6, due to enter commercial ...

Via Rail Canada has signed a $C 4.7bn ($US 3.4bn) agreement with Alstom for the supply of 313 passenger coaches for ...