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For the first time, Indian Railways will manufacture metro rail coaches at its Rae Bareilly based factory under the Make In India scheme, an official said Thursday.
Posted 7 hours ago by bevans
HYPERLOOP, autonomous vehicles and ultra long-haul flights are heralded as the future of travel, but rail is quietly undergoing something of a renaissance in Asia-Pacific too.
Posted 15 hours ago by Railpage System User
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in India has announced plans to invest in more carriages to expand trains running on its corridors.
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Indian officials will seek expert Japanese consultation to develop areas surrounding 12 proposed bullet train stations on the 508km Rs1100bn ($14.91bn) Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed train route to improve connectivity.
Posted 2 days ago by bevans
The 75th anniversary of the infamous Thai-Burma Railway built by World War II prisoners of war will be marked today.
Posted 2 days ago by newsbot
India may have to settle for opening only a portion of its first high-speed railway, as project leaders race to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious target launch date of August 2022.
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An express railway between Hong Kong and mainland China has drastically cut travel times, but not as many commuters and tourists as expected have been taking the train all the way to or from this special administrative region.
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North and South Korea agreed on Monday to press ahead with plans to establish road and rail links, pledging to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on the project in late November or early December.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Taiwan’s underground railway line has opened in Kaohsiung for commercial commuter services. Built over ten years, the line is 15.37km long and runs between Zuoying and Fongshan.
Posted 4 days ago by newsbot
An underground railway line officially opened in Kaohsiung yesterday following almost 10 years of construction, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ Railway Bureau said.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
China has unveiled a scale model of new high-speed flight train that is expected to travel at 1,000 kms an hour by 2025, the state-run media reported on Friday.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
Pakistan Railways is all set to introduce 10 new passenger trains by the end of this year to facilitate the travelers in various parts of the country besides bringing revenue to the department.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
The high-speed electric trains that are going to run on the Baku-Ganja route, will move at a speed of 159 kilometers per hour, the Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov told reporters Oct. 12.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
National operator KTMB has awarded a consortium of Ansaldo STS Malaysia and Pestech Technology a 264m ringgit contract for the resignalling of the Gemas – Johor Bahru main line in the south of the country.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Uzbekistan and China are one step closer to constructing the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway line, a new branch of New Silk Road that opens another, shorter route to Iran. The counterparts agreed to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation in the railway sector, which contains clauses about this new railway corridor.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak complained Monday that the development of the high-speed Thai-Chinese railway from Bangkok to Nong Khai is lagging behind schedule, and ordered the agency responsible to speed up the project.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
The newly-launched high-speed rail between the mainland and Hong Kong has recorded about 880,000 passenger trips since put into use two weeks ago, the rail service operator MTR Corporation said on Sunday.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Slow but cheap, accessible and iconic, city’s history with transport mode dates back to 1880s and it remains a heritage stalwart amid relentless change
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The rail traffic from Punjab to Sindh remained suspended for nearly three hours on Sunday when the Karachi-bound Zakariya Express met an accident near Rahim Yar Khan, SAMAA TV reported.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
The Japanese freight forwarder Nippon Express wants to start a regular rail service between Chinese and European cities in February next year. In doing so, it wants to charter complete train combinations of Chinese rail operators.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
East Japan Railway's ALFA-X experimental Shinkansen trainset is on course to start test running in May 2019, the railway announced on October 3.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
A consortium of Tata Group unit, TRIL Urban Transport and Siemens Project Ventures, has secured the contract to develop Pune Metro line in Maharashtra, India.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
The trans-Vietnam high-speed rail is back on the agenda, with officials saying it can compete with aeroplanes for business.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
Rail and sea freighters speed up market share from Eurasia to the world
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Between Dhaboi and Miyagam in Gujarat is an Indian Railways line which is also said to be Asia’s first narrow-gauge line.
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