INDIAN Railways (IR) launched its new Tejas Express premium long-distance service on May 22, when railways minister Mr Suresh Prabhu flagged off the inaugural train from Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Karmali in Goa.

INDIAN Railways (IR) has decided to upgrade the 245km Delhi - Chandigarh main line to increase the maximum speed for passenger trains to 200km/h.

GE Transportation has unveiled the final design for the 700 3.36MW and 300 4.47MW locomotives it is delivering to Indian Railways (IR).

INDIAN Railways (IR) will adopt Japanese best practice in rail safety under a Memorandum of Cooperation signed by the two countries on February 21.

KNORR-Bremse announced on February 15 that it will supply braking systems to Alstom’s 800 new Prima-E double locomotives for Indian Railways (IR).

PRESENTING India’s first combined budget on February 1, finance minister Mr Arun Jaitley announced an enhanced plan size of Rs 1.31 trillion ($US 20.8bn) for Indian Railways (IR) for the 2017-18 fiscal year and announced the setting up of a Rail Safety Fund (RRSK).

THE expansion of the broad-gauge network in northeast India reached another milestone on January 24, when the first broad-gauge passenger train on the Agartala - Udaipur line in Tripura was flagged off by railways minister Mr Suresh Prabhu via a video link from Dehli.

INDIAN Railways (IR) carried out an initial trial run with a piggyback train between Vasar Road and Boisar in Maharashtra state on January 5 as a precursor to a proposed roll-on roll-off service which will carry lorries between Kolad and Boisar.

INDIA’s National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC), Japan International Consultants for Transportation (JIC), Nippon Koei, and the Oriental Consultants Global Company Limited joint venture has been appointed as general consultants to execute India’s first high-speed rail corridor linking Mumbai with Ahmedabad.

INDIA’s cabinet granted approval on November 30 for the Rs 109.5bn ($US 1.6bn) Mumbai Urban Transport Project Phase 3 (MUTP 3) project, which aims to expand rail infrastructure in the Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts of the western state of Maharashtra.