Closures of three lines and major delays hit the opening day of the Paris Olympics. The post Arson attacks disrupt French high-speed lines appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

Signing of build and operate contract for 35.9km Orange Line should see completion by 2030. The post Bangkok metro line goes ahead appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

Spanish infrastructure manager Adif AV is currently working on Basque Y project connecting Vitoria, Bilbao and San Sebastián. The post Spain nets final tranche of EIB loan for high-speed rail appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

International consortium will design, finance, build and operate the 148km driverless network. The post Baghdad metro preferred bidder revealed appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

Deal for 200 metro cars for Market - Frankford Line is worth $US 724.3m. The post Septa chooses Hitachi Rail for Philadelphia fleet contract appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

Offer comes as Ganz-Mavag bid for Talgo still awaits Spanish government approval. The post Talgo considers Škoda merger offer appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

Arup and Asia Infrastructure Solutions win design and construction consultancy contract for 7km line in East Kowloon. The post New Hong Kong mass transit system planned appeared first on International Railway Journal ..read more

ALSTOM has been awarded a contract by German local transport authorities go.Rheinland and Rhein-Ruhr Transport Association (VRR) to supply 90 EMUs for the Cologne S-Bahn network. Including maintenance over a period of 34 years, the contract is worth over €4bn and is the largest order for Alstom in Germany to date, according to the manufacturer. The contract is expected to be signed and the order booked in the second quarter of the current financial year. Alstom will supply two versions of the Adessia Stream EMUs. One is a nine-car train 150m long with capacity of up to 1150 passengers. An 11-c ..read more

FOLLOWING a spate of train crashes in recent months, India’s finance minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, has approved spending of Rs 1.09 trillion ($US 20.5bn) on measures to improve safety by Indian Railways (IR) in 2024-25. While Sitharaman made no specific mention of the rail sector in her budget speech on July 23, official documents reveal that funding for IR will be Rs 2.62 trillion, up from the previous record of Rs 2.4 trillion in 2023-24. The Indian government will provide Rs 2.52 trillion in budgetary support for IR, while Rs 100bn will come from extra-budgetary resources. IR’s operating ..read more

PROVIDING an update on HS2 since the decision to cancel Phase 2 of the high-speed project, Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO) says that the Department for Transport (DfT) and project delivery company HS2 Ltd need to successfully reset the programme in order to avoid past failures and maximise its value. The NAO report published on July 23 says that HS2 remains “an extremely large and complex project,” despite being smaller in size after the government decided in October 2023 to abandon all new construction north of Birmingham. DfT and HS2 Ltd now need to be clear on what benefits they want ..read more