The contract includes an option for up to 12 additional vehicles, as well as spare parts management. Credit: Stadler, Inc. Stadler has signed an agreement with Danish tram-train operator Aarhus ...

New York MTA Subway train. Credit: Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock.com. New York State’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board has approved a contract valued at $1.507bn for the purchase of ...

The use of hydrogen as a fuel is a key component of India’s strategy to shift towards cleaner energy. Credit: TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock.com. Indian Railways has successfully tested a hydrogen-powered ...

GATX’s portfolio includes tank and freight railcars, aircraft spare engines, and tank containers. Credit: foras05/Shutterstock. GATX has entered a definitive agreement to purchase around 105,000 ...

Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, will lead the project with support from the USDOT. Credit: Xackery Irving/Shutterstock. The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has announced a shift in the ...

CN anticipates this initiative to further progress hybrid locomotive technology. Credit: Svetlana123/Shutterstock. Canadian National Railway (CN) has initiated a ...

The contract covers maintenance for a ten-year lease, with the trains to be built by Hitachi in County Durham. Credit: Hitachi Rail Limited. Britain’s FirstGroup has finalised a £500m ($636.8m) ...

Brightline West will build a high-speed passenger rail system between Las Vegas and Southern California by 2028. Brightline West is building a high-speed rail system to connect Las Vegas, Nevada, and ...

Render of the West Yorkshire mass transit system tram passing through Leeds City Centre. Credit: West Yorkshire Combined Authority. For many years, the UK city of Leeds has held the rather unfortunate ...

At high altitudes, snow, cold, wind, and harsh weather conditions make the construction and maintenance of railways an expensive challenge. despite this, the highest altitude railways in the world are ...

Railways tend to work best when they are reasonably flat and level, but unfortunately for engineers, the world was not formed with railways in mind. Throughout the history of rail, new solutions have ...

Europe has a long history of high-speed trains, being an early adopter after the first high-speed rail system, the Tokaido Shinkansen, began operations in Japan. Since France’s TGV network began ...