Survivors of an Indian double train crash that killed nine people described on Tuesday their terror when a driver missed a signal and rammed a goods train into a passenger express. The force of the crash on Monday was so strong that one carriage was initially thrust high into the […]
Nigeria’s largest container terminal, APM Terminals Apapa on Wednesday, embarked on an awareness campaign on the standard gauge rail line with a rail trip to Ibadan for its customers. About 20 of its customers comprising of importers and exporters, were present on the trip which began from Ebute Metta rail […]
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) today publishes its five main asks of Government, in a manifesto for the next Parliament which seeks a fresh start for UK rail. RIA, which champions a dynamic rail supply sector, today (6 June) calls on the next Government to boost rail capacity to meet […]
The Nigerian government has said it will resume freight services on the old narrow gauge rail line from Lagos to Kano on Thursday following the completion of rehabilitation. This was made known in a statement issued on Thursday by Sen. Saidu Ahmed Alkali, Minister of Transportation. Alkali stated that President […]
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger State Command, said its personnel have intercepted two trailers suspected of transporting vandalized railway sleepers in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state. The Niger State NSCDC Commandant, Joachim Okafor, stated this during a press briefing in his office on Friday. […]
Operatives of police command in Kaduna State have arrested a suspect involved in the vandalism of railway tracks with 100 pieces of rail tracks. ASP Mansir Hassan, the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, told newsmen on Saturday in Kaduna that the arrest took place following a credible intelligence report at […]
The Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, has launched an investigation into the Abuja-Kaduna train that derailed at the Jere corridor. NAN reports that some coaches of the train, which departed the Rigasa Train Station in Kaduna on Sunday morning to Abuja, reportedly derailed in a mountainous area near Jere. This […]
The management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has reassured that normal passenger train services between Kaduna-Rigasa and Idu Abuja are continuing despite a minor derailment at Jere station. Recall that some coaches in a train which departed the Rigasa Train Station in Kaduna on Sunday morning to Abuja reportedly […]
Zimbabwes Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube revealed in a recent interview that the collaboration aims to leverage Chinas expertise and financial resources to modernise the country`s railway infrastructure, addressing both fixed and rolling stocks as well as signalling systems. Zimbabwe is in discussions with China Railway Group Ltd. to revitalise the […]
NETHERLANDS: Railway operators must pay a total of approximately €170 million annually for the use of the Amsterdam-Belgium/Breda high-speed line.This amount was agreed between the Dutch government and Dutch Railways (‘NS’), and it stems directly from the Fyra concession fee offered by NS in overpriced bidding back in 2001. In […]