SLOVAKIA: National operator ZSSK has put the first of its Stadler Kiss double-deck electric multiple-units into passenger service. ‘Today is an important milestone’, State Secretary at the Ministry ...

BRITISH passenger operator South Western Railway (SWR) has announced that the first of 90 Aventra EMUs being supplied by Alstom has entered passenger service, branded as Arterio by SWR. The first jour ...

PKP Intercity says this is the largest order it has placed for multi-system locomotives. POLAND’s national operator PKP Intercity has awarded a Zlotys 2.3bn ($US 575.7m) contract to Newag for the pur ...

USA: Plans have been unveiled for the development and testing of a prototype main line freight locomotive with a powered tender, which will be fuelled by renewable natural gas. RNG is a purified bioga ...

Russia: At the end of December, the first five-car train entered service on a route between Ekaterinburg and the town of Kamensk-Uralsky. Under the current contract, Russian Railways is to receive 22 ...