Exploring trains and locomotives from CRRC China, Stadler Rail Switzerland, Siemens Mobility Germany, Hyundai Rotem South Korea, Luna Rail, Spitzke, and Alstom France.

One of the world's foremost authorities on why big projects often fail. We explore what goes wrong on the supply side of big projects, before testing an idea about getting the demand side straight.

We all know that Europe and Asia are the home of modern passenger rail, while North America lags far behind. Canada’s mainline railways move about 36 passenger-kilometres per capita[1] each year, ...

Transport Matters * How Chiltern's Oxford extension came in on time & budget | Freewheeling * Rail's electronics problem we ...

Abstract Transport planning is, at its core, about enabling people to reach the activities that matter to them. Yet for some people, this goal goes unmet. In this paper, we examine the prevalence and ...

Researchers are examining whether spare capacity on buses, trams and trains could help cities reduce delivery traffic, but turning the concept into a workable network will require difficult ...

CAF has completed a battery range test with a series-production Class 557 BEMU for Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, recording 273 km in battery-only operation at the Siemens Test and Validation Center in ...

US company REGENT has completed the first crewed flight of its Viceroy Seaglider, a 55ft-long all-electric wing-in-ground-effect craft.

CRRC reported roughly RMB 65 billion in overseas new orders in 2025, up 37% year-on-year. The industrial story here can be easily glazed over as, once again, “Made in China overcapacity.” Or “China is ...

The Government has unveiled a major new rail freight growth strategy, placing freight at the heart of Great British Railways (GBR) and setting a target to increase rail freight volumes by at least 40% ...

Sometimes a simple question can lead into a tangle of historical research when it is discovered that there appears to be no documented explanation for something. This is especially the case when the ...

If you go to Paddington main line station and follow the signs to platform 14 you eventually end up at short curved platform located almost at the far end of the station. All of Paddington’s other ...