The Alstom and Bombardier consortium has been awarded the contract to design and manufacture the new generation of metros for Île-de-France Mobilités and the Paris Transport Administration (RATP)[1] The confirmed part of the contract covers the delivery of 44 trains for a sum of over 530 million euro. This may […]
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The RTIS devices are primarily used for the acquisition of train movement data, including that of train arrival, train departure, run-through timings at the railway stations en route,Indian Express has reported. RTIS devices are primarily used for the acquisition of train movement dataISRO-enabled GPS system helps Indian Railways improve efficiency! […]
Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald has said South Western Railways could end the 27-day strike instantly if they just did what they agreed to do over guards on trains. The train company started a 27-day strike across December over plans to remove the guards on trains. But Mr McDonald […]
CN has announced it was implementing a recovery plan following the end of an eight-day strike. The strike — which involved more than 3,000 CN conductors and rail-yard workers — caused CN’s network to run at about 10 percent of capacity, company officials said in a press release. Every strike […]
Turkey is silently making her mark on African railway market.Unlike the Chinese and the Russians,the Turks are somehow strategic about the market penetration.First,it was Tanzania,then Senegal and now Ethiopia. The Ankara team seems to offer high qualitative rail works at moderate cost,factors that are granting it fresh access to infrastructure […]