One of the flagship projects of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, launched in 2015, is the creation of an Integrated High-Speed Train Network that connects all African capitals and commercial centres to facilitate the movement of goods and people, thus reducing transport costs and relieving congestion of current systems. Agenda […]
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France’s high-speed rail network suffered coordinated arson attacks early Friday, severely disrupting travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers just hours before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. A source close to the investigation described the incidents as deliberate acts of “sabotage,” aimed at paralyzing the TGV network. […]
In the first quarter, of 2024, Nigeria spent more on servicing the debt incurred for building its railways than the revenue generated by its railway system. The country spent 2,470% per cent more on railway debt servicing than it made from revenue from rail services in the first quarter of […]
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the Warri-Itakpe rail service after a train derailed on Thursday. The train was travelling from Itakpe in Kogi to Ujevwu in Delta when the accident occurred at about 7.15pm. Ediri Oyibo, a digital strategist who was on board when the accident happened, said […]
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 […]