6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (382+ words) The study looked at whether the metro network will be able to handle the increase in services planned as part an ongoing upgrading programme which includes construction of the 8 km Fornebu Line, additional rolling stock and resignalling works, doubling of…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (291+ words) EUROPE: Berlin-based night train start-up Nox Mobility has raised "2m in pre-seed funding to support its plan to create a pan-European overnight network focused on offering private rooms for solo travellers. Thomas Wintle explains how this latest night train venture fits…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (526+ words) The previous service, along with a Paris'Wien route, was operated by Austrian Federal Railways, Germany's DB Personenverkehr and France's SNCF Voyageurs. It had achieved an occupancy rate of 70%, but frequent engineering works prevented an increase in services and operations ended…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (409+ words) A night train connection is back between Paris and Berlin as of tonight (26 March) with the launch of European Sleeper's new service. The operator jumped into the gap left by "BB following its exit from the route in December, which…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (415+ words) CANADA: National passenger operator VIA Rail has awarded CAD Railway Industries a C$150m five-year contract to modernise its 56 Ch'teau and Manor class sleeping cars. The coaches were originally built by Budd Car Co and AMF in the 1950s for Canadian Pacific…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (362+ words) This week's round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. Sakarya municipality, centred on Adapazar" is to call tenders for the construction of a 15. 2 km tram line on April 28. It would have 19 stops and two branches, running from Sakarya…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (219+ words) UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board's Industry Leadership Group has agreed to'Network Rail's request to stop the provision of signal post telephones during resignalling works, starting with a project in Fife. Network Rail currently maintains around 32'000 telephones across the network....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (50+ words) Railway Gazette International Regulation: Contrasting rail reform visions in Argentina Privatisation of freight railways and slashing passenger service costs are at the heart of the Argentine government's transport policy, but much uncertainty remains about how far its rail reform agenda…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (78+ words) Railway Gazette International Rack trains ordered for "one of the most spectacular and famous railway lines in the world SWITZERLAND: Mountain railway operator Gornergrat Bahn has awarded Stadler a SFr30m contract to supply a further four Polaris electric multiple-units for the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (211+ words) By Rail Business UK31 March 2026 UK: Denmark-based energy and decarbonisation infrastructure investor AIP Management has signed an agreement to acquire an additional stake in Cross London Trains, which owns the Thameslnk fleet. XLT was established in 2011 to finance, own and maintain…...