ECR is One Rail Australia’s coal haulage business. Credit: Rob Willhoft from Pixabay. Magnetic Rail Group has reached a binding deal worth around $287m (A$425m) with Australian freight rail transport ...

The Long Island Rail Road is one of the oldest and most famous rail networks in the US. Credit: Adam E. Moreira (via Wikimedia Commons). New York’s Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has existed since ...

Eurostar recently announced plans to plant a tree for every train it operates from 2020. During the peak of summer, Eurostar – the high-speed rail service connecting London to a number of European ...

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 ...

The combined Wabtec and GE Transportation firm is expected to generate revenues of more than $8bn this year. Credit: Samuel Fyfe on Unsplash. Wabtec has completed its $11bn merger deal with GE ...

Bombardier Transportation is a global leader in rail technology offering the broadest portfolio of rail solutions in the industry providing integrated solutions to create substantial benefits for ...

The complex and demanding railway transportation sector requires computer hardware and software that is secure, durable and offers high performance. Many of the currently evolving technologies in the ...

Dubbed the “Train of Hope”, the Phelophepa travels across South Africa’s railways to provide care to people in remote rural areas, including treating patients and enrolling people in education.

With an annual ridership of 3.334 billion in 2013, a 1.25% increase from the previous year, the Tokyo Subway is the world’s busiest metro system. The 310km rapid transit network serves the Greater ...

The bullet train can travel at a maximum operational speed of 320 km per hour. Credit: umehanayuuki from Pixabay. Contract manufacturing startup Zetwerk Manufacturing Businesses has secured a contract ...

DHL recently launched the fastest rail freight service running between Xi’an in China to Hamburg and Neuss in Germany. The line is expected to cut transit time from 17 to between ten and 12 days, and ...

“Hydrail is simply rail that uses hydrogen to carry energy onboard,” states Stan Thompson, director of the annual International Hydrail Conference, first held in 2005, chairman of the Hydrogen Economy ...