British prime minister David Cameron was on hand last week for the opening of Japanese conglomerate Hitachi’s new £82 million (A$180 million) train manufacturing facility in the north of England.
Hitachi
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Shortlisted intercity players given formal RfT
Transport for NSW has formally invited the four shortlisted consortia for the NSW intercity train fleet project to tender for the new fleet’s delivery and maintenance.
Four consortia were announced on
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China orders 15 more high speed trains
China Railway Corp has ordered 15 high speed trains from a joint venture between Canadian manufacturer Bombardier and Chinese giant CSR.
The contract for 15 eight-car trainsets to service China’s rapidly
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NSW to pay $1.5m to 8-year-old train fall victim
The State of NSW has been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in damages to a man who fell from a moving train when he was eight years old.
Corey Fuller-Lyons, now 23, sustained severe injuries when
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Berlin gets its 100th Flexity tram
Canadian manufacturer Bombardier has delivered the hundredth Flexity tram to Berlin’s light rail network, as part of a 142 tram deal signed in 2006.
Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) chairman and senior
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Better late than never: Nottingham gets its light rail extension
A 17.5km extension to the light rail network in the central-English city of Nottingham has opened, with new rolling stock and 100 new driver jobs now online.
Stage one of Nottingham Express Transit (NET)
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Is this Australia’s weirdest railroad crossing?
PHOTOS/VIDEO: This drawbridge style cane train crossing over the QR main line near Bundaberg is a site to behold.
“The cape gauge main line is used at speeds of up to 160km/h,” photographer David Gubler
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Alstom to deliver 17 intercity trains to Algeria
Alstom, one of the four organisations shortlisted to deliver NSW’s next intercity fleet, has won a contract to deliver 17 of its Coradia Polyvalent intercity trains to Algeria’s Société Nationale
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Second fire at Newport destroys more historic carriages
Investigators visited Newport rail yards in Melbourne’s inner west on Saturday, August 8, after a number of historic rail carriages were badly damaged by the second fire at the site in the last six months.
Steamrail
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Can Palaszczuk break Abbott’s urban spending holdout?
Queensland has opened expressions of interest (EOI) for stage two of the Gold Coast Light Rail project, despite needing funding from the Federal Government to go ahead.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
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