Category: Railway Engineering

Slovakia's RS Lease Sells Transmontana Locomotive to Budamar for Hungarian CRW Operations

Slovak leasing company RS Lease has sold its Transmontana 480 092 locomotive to logistics firm Budam...

2026-06-08

Railserve Launches YardGUARD Safety System at Over 100 Sites Across the U.S.

Railserve (a subsidiary of Marmon Rail, ultimately under Berkshire Hathaway's Marmon Holdings) has l...

2026-06-08

Italy's CEMBRE Launches 8.4 kg Ultra-Lightweight Railway Impact Wrench

CEMBRE has launched the ultra-lightweight railway impact wrench T-TYPE BBLW36, designed specifically...

2026-06-07

Northern Lines Railway Appoints Jim McDonald as General Manager

Anacostia Rail Holdings has appointed Jim McDonald as General Manager of Northern Lines Railway (NLR...

2026-06-07

Indian Railways Freight Volume Up 1.3% in May 2026, Passenger Traffic Reaches 610 Million

Indian Railways loaded 145 million tonnes of freight in May 2026, an increase of 1.3% compared to th...

2026-06-07

U.S. House Appropriations Committee Approves $3 Billion Budget for Federal Railroad Administration in FY2027

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urba...

2026-06-07

Spain's Ferrovial appoints former Bechtel executive to lead UK construction business

Spanish contractor Ferrovial has appointed Alastair Dick as managing director of its UK and Ireland ...

2026-06-07

Hitachi Rail and Sumitomo Corporation Secure AFC Contract for Jakarta MRT Phase 2 in June 2026

A consortium formed by Hitachi Rail and Sumitomo Corporation has been awarded a contract to supply a...

2026-06-07

India: Dedicated Container Train Service Launched Between Sahnewal and Pipavav Port

A dedicated container train service connecting Sahnewal in Punjab with Pipavav Port in Gujarat has r...

2026-06-07

Symons Group and KiwiRail Showcase Taranaki Freight Hub

Symons Group and KiwiRail recently unveiled a new freight hub aimed at improving the efficiency of g...

2026-06-07

US Foothill Gold Line Awards Construction Management Contract for 2.3-Mile Light Rail Extension

The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority awarded a construction management contract to SSH Join...

2026-06-07

Australian Federal and Victorian Governments Invest $55 Million in Freight Hub, to Be Operational by Year-End

The Australian federal government and the Victorian state government have jointly invested $55 milli...

2026-06-07

Touax and Two Others Form 3 Trillion Rupee Railway Freight Car Leasing Venture in India

Touax Group, Texmaco Rail & Engineering Limited, and TrinityRail Global have announced a strategic c...

2026-06-07

Daily unloading of grain cars at Ukraine's Greater Odesa ports drops to 1,184 cars

Valeriy Tkachev, Deputy Director of the Transport Technology and Commercial Work Department of Ukrai...

2026-06-07

California SMART Quarter-Cent Sales Tax Extended to 2059

Voters in Marin and Sonoma Counties, California, approved Measure B in the June 2 primary election, ...

2026-06-07

Amtrak's Maple Leaf Train Runs Daily Cross-Border Rail Service Between Toronto and New York

Amtrak's Maple Leaf Train operates daily between Toronto and New York City, offering a rail alternat...

2026-06-07

All U-shaped girders for Chennai Metro Line 5 Phase 2 completed

Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), along with general consultant AEON and contractor L&T (Larsen & T...

2026-06-07

Uruguay and EU Explore Opportunities for Transport Infrastructure Cooperation

Uruguay's Minister of Transport and Public Works, Lucía Etcheverry, stated at the "Uruguay-EU Forum"...

2026-06-07

£70 Million Upgrade of Huddersfield Station in the UK to Be Completed by February Next Year

Huddersfield Station in West Yorkshire, UK, is undergoing a £70 million upgrade. Built in 1850 as a ...

2026-06-07

DB Cargo UK delivers 7 Liebherr LH 40 material handlers

DB Cargo UK, which operates a fleet of Liebherr material handlers, has recently delivered seven new ...

2026-06-07

Indian Railway Minister Inspects Hydrogen Train and ₹3 Billion Station Redevelopment Project

Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw conducted a comprehensive inspection of the Tilak Bridge to...

2026-06-07

Bridge Pile Foundation Construction Completed for Chaozhou East to Chaoshan Station Section of Eastern Guangdong Intercity Railway

On June 4, the final bridge pile foundation concrete was poured and formed in the Chaozhou East to C...

2026-06-07

China-Europe Railway Express "Eastern Corridor" surpasses 3,000 trains this year

On June 6, a return China-Europe Railway Express train, consisting of 55 carriages loaded with edibl...

2026-06-07

China's Railway Transports Over 75 Million Tons of Grain, Cotton, and Fertilizer in First Five Months of This Year

The railway department has recently strengthened the transportation guarantee for key agricultural m...

2026-06-06

Direct Qinghai-Vietnam Freight Train Launched, Transit Time Cut to 4 Days

The first international freight train from Qinghai Province, China, to Vietnam arrived in early June...

2026-06-06

China Railway Seventh Group Completes T-Component Rotation for Hefei-Wuhan High-Speed Railway in Hubei Section

On June 2, the T-component of Pier 416 of the Tangbukou Sheshui River Bridge, part of the Hefei-Wuha...

2026-06-06

First Steel Girder Installed on Central Navigational Channel Bridge of China's Hangzhou Bay Sea-Crossing Railway Bridge

On June 1, the first steel girder section of the central navigational channel bridge of the Hangzhou...

2026-06-06

East West Railway Company Launches Market Research for £300 Million Assurance Contract

The East West Railway Company (EWR Co) is seeking market feedback for an Integration, Technical, Ope...

2026-06-06

GPT Infraprojects Secures INR 720 Million Sleeper Order from Indian Eastern Railway

GPT Infraprojects Limited has secured an order worth INR 720 million from Eastern Railway, India, to...

2026-06-06

GRAHAM UK Managing Director: Northern Powerhouse Requires Long-Term Infrastructure Investment

Stephen Hill, Managing Director of GRAHAM Civil Engineering, recently gave an interview on the "Nort...

2026-06-06