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Japan is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the opening of the world's first high-speed line this month. Kevin Smith looks at the enduring achievements of the Tokaido Shinkansen and considers [...]

An innovative freight wagon developed by Ermewa is the centrepiece of a new logistics concept that promises to improve the transport of palletised freight by rail. Managing director, Peter Reinshagen. [...]

State government regulations are accelerating the shift from diesel to alternative traction in California. Kyle Gradinger, division chief of rail and mass transportation at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). [...]

Egypt is working on a multitude of railway construction projects that will improve sustainable transport across the country. Kevin Smith examines the projects underway, speaking exclusively to Dr Tarek Hamed [...]

One of the world's most high-profile high-speed railway projects is beginning to take shape in the Egyptian desert. Kevin Smith was granted exclusive access to a key construction site, close [...]

THE global rail industry is experiencing two concurrent human resources challenges: the impending retirement of a significant proportion of its experienced and knowledgeable workforce; and an ongoing battle to secure [...]

RISING from the desert sands, Egypt's New Administrative Capital (NAC) is progressively becoming a hub of modernity and government power. Plans for a new capital were announced in 2015 and [...]

Enno Wiebe officially took over as the new director general of the European Rail Industry Supply Association (Unife) on June 1. He reveals his plans for the organisation to Kevin [...]

Ireland is the latest country to board the hydrogen development train after Irish Rail (IE) agreed a project with Latvia's Digas Group to retrofit a class 071 locomotive last month. [...]

Unprecedented funding from the federal government is helping to bring Amtrak's dream of an enhanced passenger railway network in the United States closer to reality. CEO Stephen Gardner discusses some [...]

Stuttgart Digital Nodes is a flagship project in German Rail's (DB) pursuit of digitalisation. The work by the local DB team is providing interesting lessons for other ETCS rollout projects, [...]

Royal Railway's resourcefulness has transformed Cambodia's metre-gauge railway into an increasingly viable alternative to road. But could more long-term investment be on the horizon? Kevin Smith reports from Phnom Penh. [...]

THE last time IRJ sat down with Alstom president and CEO, Mr Henri Poupart-Lafarge, was at the end of January 2021, on the eve of Alstom completing the deal to [...]

A revised structure for governing Singapore's metro network, in which the Land Transport Authority (LTA) plays a central role as asset owner and overseer of new network construction, renewals and [...]

'IF there were no Shinkansen' I is the poignant title of the part memoir, part chronicle of high-speed railways in Japan written by Mr Shuichiro Yamanouchi, a former chairman of [...]

SEPTEMBER in an even-numbered year means only one thing for the global railway industry: InnoTrans. The 14th edition of the world's foremost railway industry trade show will take place at [...]

Faced with a revenue shortfall following the Covid-19 pandemic, Milan Transport (ATM) is following a revised corporate strategy, which aims to improve the attractiveness of the city's public transport network [...]

Around a year-and-a-half since its sale by French National Railways (SNCF) to Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ) and German asset manager DWS Group, Ermewa Group has rebranded [...]

Mongolia celebrated the opening of a new railway from its mineral-rich Tavantolgoi region to the Chinese border last month. Kevin Smith examines the ups and downs of this much-delayed project [...]

THE National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of the United States has made 34 new recommendations to improve safety in its final report into the derailment of a Norfolk Southern (NS) [...]

THE railway's enviable status as the most environmentally-friendly mode of transport is well established. Industry advocates frequently point to rail's stronger green credentials compared with road and air. Many of [...]

AS climate change takes hold, extreme weather events are set to become more and more commonplace. Already the global railway sector is feeling the effects of higher temperatures, heavy rainfall [...]

PRIVATELY-funded new entrant Proxima has confirmed plans to introduce open-access high-speed services from Paris to the west of France using a fleet of 12 high-speed trains supplied by Alstom. Proxima [...]

WHILE last month's General Election in India did not produce the resounding victory that prime minister, Mr Narendra Modi, was hoping for, he remains in power at the head of [...]

TRIALS of the United States' first passenger hydrogen train are expected to begin this month. A Flirt H2 multiple-unit built by Stadler will be tested on the Arrow Line between [...]

Immesrive theatrel-based training is transforming the delivery of health and safety inductions on some of Britain's largest infrastructure projects. Kevin Smith spent a day at the Elite training facility in [...]

The first phase of Kuala Lumpur's second heavy metro line entered service in June. Kevin Smith speaks with Bassam Mansour, the independent consultant engineer project director for MRT-2. about how [...]

Angola has appointed a private concessionaire to operate and maintain the 1344km Lobito corridor, a 1067mm-gauge railway which runs from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo to the [...]

THE president of Mexico, Mr Andres Lopez Obrador, officially opened the first 473km section of the Mayan Train project from San Francisco de Campeche to Cancun Airport on December 15, [...]

Denmark's national ERTMS programme and the project to rollout CBTC on the Copenhagen S-Bane cleared several significant hurdles in 2021. Kevin Smith gets the latest from Banedanmark's signalling programme director, [...]

Spain possesses Europe's largest high-speed network and is the first country in which three operators are competing head-to-head on a single high-speed line. Kevin Smith reflects on recent developments and [...]

Technology developed by LocoTech-Signal is helping to revolutionise train operation in Russia. Andrey Romanchikov, managing director for Intelligent Control Systems Development at TMH and CEO of LocoTech-Signal, explains the company's [...]

Europe's railways are experiencing a moment of unprecedented political goodwill as the European Union (EU) seeks to encourage modal shift to reduce transport emissions. However, frustration is building within the [...]

BRITAIN'S High Speed 2 project was in the headlines foi all the wrong reasons last autumn. The Conservative government's decision to scrap the remainder of the second phase of the [...]

Philippe Citroen, the long-serving director general of the European Rail Industry Supply Association (Unite), will stand down this month. Citroen reflects on his almost 40-year career in the rail sector [...]

EGYPT is a country under construction. More than 40 megaprojects worth $US 1bn or more are underway from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean under a bold government modernisation agenda [...]

THE steady liberalisation of Europe's passenger operating market is altering the fabric of the continent's regional railways, including how new rolling stock is financed. Two dominant financing models have emerged. [...]

WITH seemingly endless information now at our fingertips, there is a fierce debate underway over the extent to which governments and publicly-owned institutions should and are providing free and open [...]

SIEMENS Mobility and German Rail (DB) officially launched the Mireo Plus H hydrogen multipleunit alongside a new mobile hydrogen storage and refuelling trailer during an event at the manufacturer's Krefeld [...]

SIEMENS Mobility confirmed that it had completed a deal to acquire Netherlands-based Sqills on October 5. The 550m [euro] transaction bolsters Siemens' capabilities in cloud-based inventory management and reservation and [...]

50 years since Amtrak was founded, the United States' federally owned passenger operator is arguably at the most exciting juncture in its history. William Flynn, Amtrak president and CEO, presents [...]

CENTRAL to the success of the RailPulse programme are advanced telematics technologies. This sector has undergone sweeping changes in recent years as the technology has progressed, enabling suppliers to deliver [...]

Staffer is a cross-industry project involving 32 organisations that are working to improve and enhance training programmes to meet the European railway industry's future needs. With 12 months remaining of [...]

The port of Duisburg in western Germany is already Europe's biggest inland port. It will also possess Europe's largest container terminal when construction of a new 23.5ha facility with capacity [...]

MxV Rail, formerly known as TTCI, will launch a new railway research facility in Pueblo, Colorado, this autumn. President and CEO, Kari Gonzales, outlines the group's strategy and ambitions to [...]

Ensco will officially begin its contract to operate and maintain the Transportation Technology Center in Colorado on October 1. The company's new president, Jeff Stevens, outlines the company's plans for [...]

The European Union has set some ambitious targets to increase high-speed and conventional passenger rail traffic by the end of the decade. Kevin Smith examines the challenges to achieving these [...]

THE Red Sea shipping crisis and the mass re-routing of cargo ships around the Cape of Good Hope beginning in late December has added 10-20 days to sailings from Chinese [...]

SAUDI Arabia's ambitious Landbridge project, an eastwest, port-to-port railway from Jubail and Damman on the Persian Gulf to Jeddah on the Red Sea via Riyadh, has finally taken a key [...]

THE Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the associated supply chain and inflationary challenges posed by these once-in-a-generation events pushed the construction industry to a crisis point. Yet there [...]