By David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal; October 5, 2018 ALSTOM’s new range of Avelia high-speed trains got off to a…
By Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal; October 2, 2018 MAKING public transport services in the Paris area completely free-of-charge would…
By Geert De Clercq, Reuters; Octobr 2, 2018 PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – French utility Veolia has agreed to sell…
By Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal; September 24, 2018 THE French state will provide €30m to modernise rolling stock used…
By Carol Matlack, Bloomberg Businessweek; August 17, 2018 With ever more passengers opting for low-cost carriers such as Ryanair and…
By Zoë Miller, Thisisinsider.com; July 30, 2018 Planes may get you where you’re going more quickly, but there’s something to…
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times; July 29, 2018 When California voters approved construction of a bullet train in 2008,…
From ZlotoNews; June 19, 2018 A baby boy who was born on a Parisian train on Monday has been given…
By David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal; June 5, 2018 THE French Senate voted by a large majority on June 5…
By Keith Fender, International Railway Journal; May 29, 2018 STUDIES are to commence soon on reopening two cross-border lines between…
By Staff, Global Construction Review; May 14, 2018 An internal SNFC document seen by French magazine Le Parisien suggests that…
By BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL, The New York Times, March 28, 2018 The astronomical costs of building the Second Avenue subway…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; March 26, 2018 Siemens and Alstom have entered into a business combination agreement to merge their…
From Railway Gazette; March 13, 2018 FRANCE: Transdev announced on March 12 that its train operating subsidiary CFTA had received…
By Ania Nussbaum and Mark Deen, Bloomberg Quint; March 5, 2018 (Bloomberg) — The long, empty platform of the TGV…
By The Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report; February 26, 2018 PARIS (AP) — French Prime minister Edouard Philippe…
From SmartRail World; November 17, 2017 For train operating companies, keeping the general public up to speed on changes to…
By Reuven Fenton and Max Jaeger, New York Post; November 12, 2017 Well, this sure puts those old Brooklyn trolley…
From The Connexion; October 18, 2017 The number of smaller stations in France served by TGV trains (high-speed trains à…
By Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics; October 16, 2017 Beauty and subways don’t always go hand-in-hand, especially for the millions of…
By The Canadian Press, CTV News; October 4, 2017 MONTREAL — The merger between European railway manufacturers hasn’t ended with…
By Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal, September 27, 2017 SEPTEMBER 26 brought a double-dose of bad news for Bombardier, with…
By Tom Powell, Evening Standard; September 29, 2017 Eurostar passengers have been left stranded at stations after a host of…
By Arno Schuetze and Allison Lampert, Reuters, September 28, 2017 FRANKFURT/MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canada’s Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) missed out on…
By Allison Lampert, Reuters, September 27, 2017 MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canadian plane and train manufacturer Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) took big…