INDIA: Bengaluru suburban rail network development agency Bi-RIDE has placed a Rs15.1bn order for Integral Coach Factory to supply 51 metro-style trainsets for the future Mallige and Kanaka lines. The ...

UZBEKISTAN: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has approved measures designed to increase ridership on the Toshkent Metro, expand the network and improve efficiency. Under the plan approved on May 15, the ...

UK: ‘Passengers will see bread and butter improvements to their services’, the Department for Transport said when Britain’s biggest train operator transferred to the public sector as part of the ...

VIETNAM: Hyundai Rotem has signed a 491bn won contract with Vietnam’s multi-sector industrial holding company THACO for the supply of three-car driverless metro trainsets for Ho Chi Minh City metro ...

Deutsche Bahn has been increasing the spending on long-needed infrastructure works, but so far little improvement is seen, says our Senior Editor Chris Jackson. June 14 is due to see the reopening of ...

MONTENEGRO: National passenger train operator ŽPCG has awarded Stadler a contract to supply three Flirt electric multiple-units to enhance the attractiveness of public transport and enable modern ...

GERMANY: Škoda trams are now operating autonomously within a depot in Mannheim. Railway Gazette International attended a demonstration of the technology at Rhein-Neckar transport authority RNV’s ...

TURKEY: The Ministry for Transport & Infrastructure has invited expressions of interest in contracts to support the development of the 127 km Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project to build a railway ...

LITHUANIA: LTG Infra has broken ground on a €37m military mobility project at the Palemonas terminal near Kaunas which is served by both standard and broad gauge tracks. The site will be turned into a ...

SPAIN: State-backed operator RENFE is fighting to keep high speed rival Iryo out of its La Sagra maintenance depot despite an order from Spain’s competition regulator to do so. RENFE saying it will ...

France’s sixth-largest city has seen a significant increase in ridership after making its public transport free for residents, as Montpellier’s Vice-President for Transport & Mobility Julie Frêche ...

BELGIUM: The federal government has approved an addendum to Infrabel’s Performance Contract, enabling four new rail investment projects up to 2032. These include €27.5m for battery train ...