USA: The board of Class I freight railway CSX named Steve Angel as President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board with effect from September 28, succeeding Joe Hinrichs who has left the company.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
UK: Rail Minister Lord Peter Hendy opened the inaugural meeting of the AI Advisory Council which has been established by strategic rail innovation body GBRX.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
USA: Railinc and Duke University’s Christensen Family Center for Innovation are to collaborate to explore how AI, mobile devices and ‘social media-style technologies’ could improve wagon repair work.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
GERMANY: Siemens Mobility begins construction of a rolling stock battery system factory with a groundbreaking ceremony at Luhe-Wildenau in Bayern.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
LITHUANIA: LTG Infra has established a dedicated design unit to ensure rapid progress with Rail Baltica, and to handle future projects including further standard gauge lines.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
EUROPE: Boluda Shipping has entered the rail freight haulage market with the acquisition of DB Cargo subsidiary Transfesa’s intermodal transport activities in Spain and Portugal.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
INDIA: The northeastern state of Mizoram has been connected to the national rail network, with the opening of a 51 km broad-gauge line to serve the state capital Aizawl.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
News from the world rail freight market.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
UK: A major refurbishment of the 1937 Art Deco station at Richmond in southwest London has been completed, reversing later alterations and addressing weathering which had degraded the building’s distinctive appearance.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
Infrabel is nearing the end of a complex programme to roll out ETCS train protection across its network, using a variety of modes to accelerate the deployment and learning some valuable lessons along the way.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
MOZAMBIQUE: Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique has unveiled the first two of 10 freight locomotives which are being supplied from India’s Banaras Locomotive Works via consultancy RITES.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
MEXICO: CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co has been awarded a contract to supply 15 electric multiple-units for the Tren Suburbano extension from Felipe Ángeles International Airport to Pachuca, undercutting a CAF bid by 41%.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Project promoter Fitram has called tenders for the detailed design and construction of the first phase of Santo Domingo’s monorail project, following President Luis Abinader’s announcement for realising the three-phase scheme.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
EUROPE: GATX Rail Europe has entered into an agreement to acquire approximately 6 000 wagons from DB Cargo, which will then lease them back.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
ITALY: The Moovit app can now be used to both plan and pay for multi-modal journeys around Roma, in a development which public transport operator ATAC expects to be particularly useful for the millions of tourists who arrive in the eternal city every year.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.| Railway Gazette International - Latest news
UK: Utility companies have trialled impact moling, horizontal directional drilling, vacuum excavation and keyhole coring to install new or access existing equipment underneath the trial section of Very Light Rail track in Coventry.| Railway Gazette International
FRANCE: The Portalp Group has formed Portalp Railway as a legal entity bringing together its platform screen door, guided transport systems and rail-sector access control and metalwork activities.| Railway Gazette International
CHILE: Construction of Santiago's 27 km metro Line 9 has begun with a ceremony at the future La Pintana depot site.| Railway Gazette International
Photo: Christophe Masse FRANCE: The government announced on September 3 its intention to provide a financial support package for the rail sector worth €4·7bn as part of a post-pandemic recovery plan. Transport Secretary Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said that the funding package, which forms part of a wider national ...| Railway Gazette International
