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Dec 4, 2024 · The latest news and analysis of the global railway industry from the world's leading international publication.
Opening up the desert: SAR pushes ahead with ambitious plans
Oct 11, 2024 · SAUDI Railway Company (SAR) has been operating heavy-haul phosphate trains between Al Jalamid in the north of the country and Ras Al Khair on the Gulf coast since the first 1392km of the North-South Railway opened in May 2011.
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6 days ago · More than 32 million passengers used Amtrak’s trains across the United States between October 1 2023 and September 30 2024.
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GPS technology keeps track of wagons - International Railway …
Oct 22, 2024 · Advances in GPS technology mean it is now possible to track wagons in real-time, offering benefits for customers, operators, and fleet managers. Colin Gerrish, CEO of PJ Measurement Technologies UK, and Günter Petschnig, CEO of PJ Messetechnik, Austria, outline the monitoring capabilities of the new Waggontracker system.
Spanish-Saudi consortium wins Saudi high-speed contract
Sep 25, 2024 · SAUDI Railways Organisation (SRO) has awarded a Euros 6.74bn contract to Al-Shoula, a Spanish-Saudi consortium, to equip, operate and maintain for 12 years the 450km Haramain high-speed line currently under construction between Mecca, Jeddah and Medina.
Jordan: a future hub for the Middle East network?
In recent years the Jordanian government has advanced plans for a national railway network which will link Iraq with the Red Sea and Saudi Arabia with Syria, Turkey, and Europe. Keith Barrow reports from Amman on how this major regional project is moving forward.
60 years of high-speed rail - International Railway Journal
Sep 25, 2024 · THE defining event in the birth of contemporary rail transport occurred 60 years ago this month. The launch of regular passenger service on the 515km Tokyo - Osaka New Tokaido Shinkansen on October 1 1964 caught the world’s attention and ignited debate on what rail transport could offer in an era where it had been largely superseded by road and air.
Network Rail’s vision for the post-pandemic railway
Oct 18, 2024 · NEWS that passenger ridership on Britain’s railway network had recovered to 70% of pre Covid pandemic levels in the second week of October was welcomed by attendees of the Rail Industry Association (RIA) annual conference in London on November 5, including Mr Andrew Haines, chief executive of infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR).
Rise of the machines: Rio Tinto breaks new ground with AutoHaul
Oct 15, 2024 · HISTORY was made on June 14 2019. Rio Tinto completed the transition to entirely automated operation of its 1500km railway in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, becoming the first heavy-haul railway in the world to operate an automated network.