Despite completing two major projects earlier this year, JR East has announced plans to increase the rate of investment. As David Briginshaw reports exclusively from Tokyo, the emphasis is on growth and measures to make the railway more resilient to earthquakes.
THE modernisation of the Buenos Aires suburban rail network has reached a milestone with the of the shipping of the last of 709 new EMU cars from CRRC Corporation's Qingdao Sifang plant in China.
VICTORIA state premier Mr Daniel Andrews and minister for public transport Mrs Jacinta Allan revealed plans on August 5 for a bored tunnel beneath the Yarra River, which will form the centrepiece of the Melbourne Metro Rail project.
THE first of a fleet of class 700 Desiro City trains being built by Siemens at its Krefeld plant in Germany for the expanded cross-London Thameslink service has arrived at the new Three Bridges depot near Gatwick Airport.
CATALAN Government Railways (FGC) inaugurated a 4km extension of Barcelona's standard-gauge suburban Line S1 to Terrassa on July 28.
THE Spanish Ministry of Public Works and Transport has launched construction of a new branch designed to improve connectivity between El Prat airport and the Barcelona suburban network.
BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has selected Hitachi Rail Europe to supply the traffic management system for London's north-south Thameslink network as part of its £6.5bn upgrading and expansion project.
CATALONIA Government Railways (FGC) is to refurbish 42 class 213 EMUs used on the Llobregat - Anoia line following the presentation of the first upgraded set to Catalonia's minister for regional policy Mr Santi Vila.
TROUBLES continue at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) after last week's sacking of its chief executive, suspension of a senior engineer, and a commuter train collision on July 17 that left 200 people injured.
IRISH Rail (IE) passenger traffic rose by 3.5% to 18.9 million, or an extra 650,000 passenger journeys, during the first six months of 2015 compared with the same period last year.