SPAIN: A serious failure of communications is at the heart of early investigations into the fatal collision between two high speed trains at Urda near Toledo on October 28. Mike Bent analyses how the ...

ZIMBABWE: The government has approved the country’s accession to an international treaty which aims to make it easier and cheaper for the private sector to finance rolling stock. The Luxembourg Rail ...

RUSSIA: Roscosmos company UKVZ has delivered a 1 435 mm gauge variant of the widely-used Type 71-623 tram for testing in Rostov-on-Don, the only Russian tram network to use standard gauge. The ...

TURKEY: Infrastructure investment agency AYGM has called tenders for the modernisation, resignalling and electrification of the 825 km double-track main line between Divriği and the border with ...

SPAIN: Investigations have begun into a collision between two high speed trains near Toledo that has left at least 64 people dead, according to Transport Minister Óscar Puente. The incident occurred ...

RUSSIA: Transmashholding’s Demikhovo factory has completed assembly of a hydrogen fuel cell powered passenger trainset for operation on the island of Sakhalin, and work is underway on a second. The ...

TANZANIA: Tanzania Railways Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding with Egyptian construction group Arab Contractors to reassess proposals for a 1 000 km standard gauge Southern Railway which ...

AZERBAIJAN: National railway ADY has signed a contract for China’s CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive to supply four electric inter-city trainsets to support its efforts to modernise the fleet and expand rail ...

SPAIN: Renfe has selected Siemens Mobility as the winner of a contract to supply 30 high speed trainsets with a design speed of 350 km/h. The national train operator said the expansion of its fleet ...

ARGENTINA: CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles has unveiled in China the first of 10 five-car trainsets it is building for Buenos Aires metro lines A and C. The vehicles were ordered in January 2025 to ...

Port Polska’s Centre for Transport and Mobility (Polish: Centrum Transportu i Mobilności – CTM) combines demand forecasting, timetable planning, railway microsimulation and technical expertise to ...

Pandrol is to open a rail fastening factory in Riyadh in conjunction with local company Links Investments. Production is planned to begin in the first half of 2027, supplying projects in Saudi Arabia ...