SPAIN: Studies are to assess the viability of upgrading the Madrid - Barcelona high speed line to raise the maximum speed to ...

SPAIN: High speed line infrastructure manager ADIF Alta Velocidad has awarded three contracts for the 69 km Plasencia ...

CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Group has entered a strategic partnership with US electric vehicle battery technology company Microvast ...

CANADA: The Deux-Montagnes branch of Montréal's Réseau Express Métropolitain has opened, tripling the length of the automated metro.

This week’s round-up of news from the urban transport sector.

SPAIN: Alstom is undertaking static and dynamic testing of the first of 10 electric multiple-units ordered by Catalunya ...

USA: Shareholders of both companies have approved Union Pacific's planned acquisition of Norfolk Southern. Combining Union ...

EUROPE: Open access operator Westbahn has described the European rolling stock market as an 'oligopoly' dominated by a few ...

UKRAINE: Alstom is to supply national railway Ukrzaliznytsia with 55 Traxx Hauler electric freight locomotives tailor-made to ...

UK: The eligibility criteria for the Disabled Persons Railcard are to be expanded so that both visible and non-visible ...

UK: Great Western Railway has gained the National Autistic Society's Autism Friendly Award for businesses which become more ...

Aurizon has entered into an agreement to use the SCT Logistics terminal at Bromelton, south of Brisbane to mitigate the ...