JAPAN: Seibu Railway and Hitachi Rail have announced a partnership to modernise 144 Series 20000 electric multiple-unit cars. The refurbished trains are scheduled to return to service sequentially ...

A growing range of low-emission alternatives is available to replace conventional diesel multiple-units on regional passenger services, but Antoine Belleguie* argues that operators and decision-makers ...

GREECE: The Kalamaria extension of the Thessaloniki automated metro was opened by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on August 27. The 4.8 km underground branch starts at 25 Martiou on the initial 9.6 ...

UK: ScotRail Trains has issued an Invitation to Negotiate to five bidders seeking to supply rolling stock to renew the Scottish government-owned operator’s suburban rolling stock fleet. Announcing the ...

INNOTRANS: Beijing Zongheng Electro-Mechanical Technology has developed a Fully Electric Drive Integrated System which simplifies rolling stock by unifying traction and braking functions and ...

PORTUGAL: B-Rail’s ambitions to operate long-distance trains competing against state incumbent CP could be affected by Spanish national operator Renfe’s plans to enter the Portuguese market, the would ...

This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. Newly elected Ulsan Mayor Kim Sang-wook has initiated a review of the city’s 10.9 km tramway project, where preliminary ...

USA: Secovia Capital has acquired Genesis Rail’s vegetation inspection and management services business Ferrovia from Auxo Investment Partners. Genesis Rail provides outsourced infrastructure ...

A long-running programme to double-track much of Thailand’s legacy metre-gauge network is making progress, with particular emphasis being placed on connectivity with neighbouring Laos. But perhaps ...

MALAYSIA: A 3.03bn ringgit railway systems contract for the 23·7 km Penang LRT Mutiara medium capacity metro line has been awarded to a joint venture of local companies Malaysian Resources Corp (90%) ...

INDONESIA: The Ministry of Finance is set to acquire a 60% stake in PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, which operates Whoosh passenger service on the 142 km Jakarta – Bandung high speed line. KCIC is a ...