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Rail Baltica: creating a strategic link for Europe. 2024-10-23T08:58:00+01:00 Sponsored by Rail Baltica. Rail Baltica is now firmly in the delivery phase. The geopolitically important project to create a standard gauge rail corridor connecting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with the rest of Europe should see its first trains running by the end of the decade.

Jan 1, 2025 · USA: Chicago commuter operator Metra's legacy 900 MHz communications system is to be upgraded to the dot16 standard, in what suppliers Siemens Mobility and Ondas Networks say is a 'milestone' first for a major railway. Designed for mission-critical private industrial networks, dot16 provides an upgrade path ...

Jan 9, 2025 · SAUDI ARABIA: National operator Saudi Arabia Railways has selected Swiss design consultancy Nose Design Experience to support the development of its next-generation of inter-city trainsets. In February 2024 SAR awarded Stadler contracts worth SFr600m to supply and maintain 10 trainsets for use on the East line ...

Nov 21, 2024 · EUROPE: The rail industry has finally reached a ‘turning point’ which will facilitate the launch of new international passenger train operators competing with Eurostar on routes to the UK.. This is the view of Channel Tunnel concessionaire Getlink, and Virgin and Evolyn are both taking advantage by developing serious proposals for new services.

Jan 2, 2025 · SOUTH AFRICA: Following months of negotiations, the city of Cape Town and Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa signed a Service Level Plan on December 4 which Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said would ‘lay the foundation for future rail devolution’.

Dec 29, 2024 · JAPAN: Central Japan Railway has developed a device that allows the shape of wheels to be measured while trains are passing over it at up to 80 km/h. Following a series of field tests, the equipment is being introduced on JR Central’s Tokyo – Shin Osaka Shinkansen route in the 2025 financial year, ending in March 2026. Similar devices will then be installed for JR Central’s electric ...

Jan 19, 2025 · The first Class 99 loco for GB Railfreight has left Stadler’s factory in València for testing at the Velim test track in the Czech Republic. It is expected to arrive in the UK in the early summer. On January 10, 12 European industry associations including the Association of European Rail Rolling Stock Lessors, European Rail Freight Association, International Union of Wagon Keepers and the ...