DENMARK: Goa-based industrial group Kineco has acquired Danish train sanitary system supplier Semvac from Wabtec UK in an all ...

INTERNATIONAL: Hitachi Rail has agreed to acquire Balfour Beatty's rail asset monitoring technology business Omnicom. Hitachi ...

UK: Northern Trains has invited five manufacturers to negotiate for framework contracts to supply up to 450 new electric and ...

CANADA: Montréal regional transport authority Exo has taken delivery of the first of 10 Charger locomotives being supplied by ...

CANADA: Ottawa's O-Train reopened its extended north-south Trillium Line on January 6, with services to be ramped up over the ...

A 09-3X Tamping Express which Plasser & Theurer says is the first tamping machine in Germany to be approved under the Fourth Railway Package certification regime has entered service with Deutsche ...

BRAZIL: The Ministry of Transport has signed an agreement for the transfer of 15·5 km of moribund railway to the municipality of Campina Grande for the development of a light rail service. The R$170m ...

UK: Network Rail has awarded Unipart company Park Signalling a £3m contract to produce a design workstation to support Solid State Interlocking signalling systems. Replacing obsolete and unsupported ...

SWITZERLAND: Chemins de Fer du Jura has awarded Stadler Signalling a SFr4·3m contract to renew signalling systems at Tavannes and Orange by 2027. This forms part of the railway’s project to modernise ...