TAIWAN: ST Engineering’s Urban Solutions business has awarded Siemens Mobility contracts to supply its Signaling X technology to Taiwan for the first time, as part of the Taoyuan Brown Line and Green ...

Maktaaral railway in the Turkistan region, which has been built as part of a 286bn tenge project to provide an alternative freight route to Uzbekistan to relieve congestion on the main Saryagash – ...

DENMARK: Lokaltog has selected Stadler to supply four RS Zero battery railcars for the Jægersborg – Nærum line north of København, the first commercial tender selection for the type. Stadler told ...

RUSSIA: Moskva’s driverless tram operations are to be expanded to a further two routes by the end of this year, as part of a systematic rollout which aims to have two-thirds of the city’s tram fleet ...

FRANCE: Greater Paris area transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités has signed a directly awarded contract for SNCF Voyageurs to continue to operate a package of Transilien suburban services in ...

FINLAND: What Helsinki regional transport authority HSL claims is ‘the world’s most beautiful tram route’ has opened, crossing three new car-free bridges over inlets of the Baltic Sea to link the ...

Uganda Railways Corp is working to revitalise its network and procuring new rolling stock to renew its aging fleet, Chief Mechanical Engineer Prosper Musiime tells Railway Gazette International. As ...

A round-up of recent rail industry contract awards around the world, compiled b. Belarus: TMH Tver has completed a contract signed in 2025 to supply Belarusian Railway with 18 Type 61-4517 compartment ...

ERTMS deployment in Europe continues to lag behind expectations, amid concerns about complexity and rising expense. European suppliers believe that focusing on the essential functions and minimising ...

Leoš Novotný, founder of Leo Express and the Leo Mobility Management rolling stock leasing company, explains to Benjámin Zelki how his latest venture will function as a ‘Booking.com for rail operators ...

The first Alstom Avelia Horizon trainsets — now branded TGV Nouvelle Génération by national operator SNCF Voyageurs — began carrying passengers on November 6. Jérémie Anne reports from onboard the ...

BANGLADESH: Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd signed four depot and civil works contract packages for metro lines 1 and 5 on October 27. The construction of both lines was officially launched in 2023, ...