POLAND: The partly underground fourth phase of Kraków’s fast tram network opened to passengers on September 26 after an inauguration ceremony the previous day. The 4.5 km extension from Wieczysta ...

GERMANY: An agreement in principle has been reached for defence company Rheinmetall to acquire Alstom’s locomotive factory in Kassel, the two companies have told. Alstom currently produces Traxx ...

MOROCCO: National railway ONCF has taken delivery of five diesel locomotives from CRRC Ziyang and 22 inter-city coaches purchased secondhand from Italy’s national operator Trenitalia. The five ...

EUROPE: The Slovenian national operator’s maintenance subsidiary SŽ-VIT has completed its first overhaul of a Siemens Mobility Vectron electric locomotive, which was returned to leasing company Beacon ...

UKRAINE: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is providing the city of Kyiv with a €150m loan to support the acquisition of modern metro trains, accessibility improvements and driver ...

VIETNAM: Alstom and Vingroup subsidiary Vinhomes have entered into an agreement for the supply of up to 83 five-car Metropolis trains from France for urban rail projects in Hanoi, along with a ...

NETHERLANDS: Den Haag area transport operator HTM launched tram Route 19 to the Delft University of Technology campus on October 5. The project took two decades to complete because of a requirement to ...

INNOTRANS: Wabtec used InnoTrans 2026 to demonstrate progress with various innovations emerging from its Forgeworks R&D incubator, including the RailGhost rail-mounted robotic platform designed to ...

EUROPE: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen opened the Connecting Europe Days 2026 in Brussels with a call for structural integration, declaring that ‘maintaining what we have is not ...

EUROPE: Passenger trains on the cross-border Wunderline between Groningen in the Netherlands and Leer in Germany resumed on October 5, almost 10 years after the Friesen Bridge over the River Ems was ...

USA: Union Pacific has taken delivery of the first two of four Wabtec FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives ordered as part of a programme to test emerging technologies in real-world environments. The ...

Ostrava transport operator DPO has awarded Škoda Group a KC3.08bn contract to supply 16 high-capacity trams, with an option for a further nine. The signing of the contract with the sole bidder on ...