USA: Sound Transit has appointed Jacobs to provide design and design validation services for the 6·6 km West Seattle Link ...

UK: Rail infrastructure contractor QTS Group has formed an in-house ecology team, with the aim of avoiding the delays that it ...

USA: Union Pacific Corp and Norfolk Southern Corp have confirmed that they are engaged in 'advanced discussions regarding a ...

LATVIA: Construction of a 2·2 km extension to Riga's southeastern tram corridor along Latgales iela get underway with a groundbreaking ceremony at Višķu iela.

UK: Dudley Council has acquired the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation and is now seeking an operator to ...

CHINA: Hong Kong transport operator MTR Corp has launched a lost property delivery service in partnership with SF Express ...

GERMANY: The GINT XT programme has been launched, marking the next phase of a research and testing programme to support the ...

BELGIUM: National passenger operator SNCB has reconfirmed its selection of CAF for the AM30 contract to supply electric and ...

TURKMENISTAN: National railway Demirýollary’s CKD9A passenger and CKD9C freight locomotives are being overhauled in China by ...

GERMANY: The DAC4EU digital automatic coupler pilot project has commissioned Voith to supply further couplers for trials using 13 wagons and one locomotive.

This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

UK: A total of 29 rail project representing £50bn of planned investment over the next 10 years are included in the Pipeline ...