Rolling stock leasing company Northrail has signed a framework agreement with Alstom for up to 100 Traxx Shunter locomotives.

DB had on show a Stuttgart S-Bahn train which has been equipped with ATO at both Grade of Automation (GoA) 2 and 4.

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Chiltern Railways became the seventh passenger operator in Britian to return to public ownership on September 20.

The EU’s transport commissioner, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, gave the keynote speech at the InnoTrans opening ceremony in Berlin.

BB-Infrastructure has signed framework contracts worth €2.6bn with Siemens Mobility and Hitachi Rail to supply digital interlockings.

IRJ's editorial team report live from Messe Berlin on the first day of the world's largest railway exhibition.

ZSSK has signed a contract with Škoda Group, Czech Republic, and ŽOS Trnava, Slovakia, for eight seven-car 200km/h EMUs.

THE eastern coastal cities of Xiamen and Ningbo in China have opened new metro lines totalling 135km.

Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) and Hitachi Rail have signed a contract to revamp the 18km Al Mashaaer Al Muqaddassah metro line in Mecca.

IRJ's editorial team report live from Messe Berlin on the first day of the world's largest railway exhibition. Follow the feed for updates from the show. InnoTrans opens this morning at Messe Belin.

VinSpeed and Siemens have won a €1bn turnkey contract to build and equip two high-speed lines in Vietnam with ATO over ETCS.