Concrete sleepers for the Maroona to Portland rail upgrade have begun arriving in western Victoria, the first of about 250,000 that will replace ageing timber sleepers along the 173-kilometre line.
A Chuo Shinkansen tunnel boring machine under Tokyo's Shinagawa ward has stopped for inspection after an abnormal sound, about 734 m into a roughly 8.2 km drive towards Todoroki.
New South Wales has invited manufacturers to express interest in building Tangara replacement trains, the first fleet planned under its $12 billion program to restore train building in the Hunter.
Home Minister Amit Shah formally flagged off what the government calls India's first LNG-powered train at Sabarmati on 27 September, but the dual-fuel DEMU was already carrying passengers in January.
UGL Transport has renewed its One Rail Australia maintenance agreement for five years, with options to extend, and will keep maintaining and overhauling most of the freight operator's locomotive fleet.
If Western Australia's freight rail buyback proceeds, state ownership would be short-term before a reorganisation that may use corridor land rights of up to 99 years, the transport minister says.
The Southwest Metro opening in Sydney still has no confirmed date and awaits formal regulatory accreditation, with more than 5,800 of 9,000 required testing hours logged by 1 September.
JR East has scheduled a trial of mobile trash bin robots in Shinjuku Station's ticket-gate concourse until November 20 to test whether roaming bins can make station cleaning more efficient.
BEML has won a bullet train order worth over ₹5,400 crore from National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited to deliver and maintain high-speed rolling stock for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad corridor.
Queensland Rail services will return to 91% of the full South East Queensland timetable from October 12 after in-principle deals on the operator’s last three enterprise agreements.
Indian Railways has approved two Maharashtra rail projects worth ₹990 crore, doubling the Chouk-Karjat section and building a 38.21 km line serving coal and cement sites in Yavatmal and Chandrapur.
Alstom has profiled Irtiza Amjad, a material planner at Ballarat and Newport keeping the X'Trapolis 2.0 supply chain moving for trains built with at least 60 per cent local content.
