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CPKC locomotive 9375 in the railway’s red livery

22.08.2026

CPKC and IBEW Binding Arbitration Agreement Ends Strike

Brightline West groundbreaking ceremony in Las Vegas

22.08.2026

Brightline West Financing Deadline Moves to September 10

Overturned Union Pacific railcars after the Central El Paso derailment

22.08.2026

Four Union Pacific Train Derailments Hit Texas

Rail track infrastructure on Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network

18.08.2026

Aurizon Network’s EBIT Climbs 10% to $640M

AUSTRALIA: The part of Aurizon that doesn't haul a single tonne of coal — it just charges other trains to use its tracks — grew its earnings faster than the company's freight operations did in the past fiscal year.
Freight wagon bogies inside an Indian Railways workshop

18.08.2026

Titagarh Deliberately Caps Wagon Output at 650

INDIA: Titagarh Rail Systems could build up to 1,000 freight wagons a month if it wanted to — instead, it's deliberately holding output to 600-650 units, betting that a mega-tender still working its way through Indian Railways will make the wait worthwhile.
SRL East construction site at Box Hill, Melbourne

18.08.2026

Councils Want SRL “Bussed” Before Rail Is Built

AUSTRALIA: Nine outer-Melbourne councils have a blunt pitch for the Victorian government on its multi-billion-dollar Suburban Rail Loop: run high-frequency buses along the corridor now, and worry about laying the actual rail tracks later.
India’s 16-coach Vande Bharat Sleeper for the Howrah–Kamakhya route

18.08.2026

ICF Sleeper Drawings Ready, Production Nears

INDIA: Railway Supply reported in January that ICF's 24-coach Vande Bharat Sleeper was still on the drawing board; seven months later, the drawings are finished, and the factory's general manager says manufacturing is next.
Madurai Junction Platform 1 with an Indian Railways locomotive in Tamil Nadu before redevelopment

18.08.2026

Madurai Junction Gets 37 Lifts in ₹413cr Overhaul

INDIA: Madurai's main railway station is being rebuilt with two G+3 terminal buildings, a 42-metre-wide air concourse, and a direct subway link to the city's Periyar bus stand — a redevelopment that will add 37 lifts and 27 escalators to a station that currently has neither in significant numbers.
An Aurizon coal train on the Central Queensland Coal Network, Australia

18.08.2026

Aurizon’s BMA Coal Contract Could Run to 2040

AUSTRALIA: Nearly a quarter of all the coal Aurizon hauls across Queensland moves for a single customer — and that relationship just got locked in for potentially the next 14 years.
Ballast train on the Inland Rail corridor just north of Narrabri, New South Wales

18.08.2026

MP Pushes for Compensation After Inland Rail Cut

AUSTRALIA: Railway Supply reported in June on regional mayors' first reaction to the federal government's decision to cancel Inland Rail north of Parkes; three months later, the local MP is turning that anger into a formal compensation claim.
A Southern Rail Class 377 train at Lewes railway station, East Sussex, on the line affected by the August 2026 derailment

18.08.2026

Lewes Line Closed 10 More Days After Derailment

UK: Railway Supply previously reported the Lewes derailment as it happened; the railway between Lewes and Haywards Heath will now stay shut for at least 10 more days, and the reason comes down to where the train came off the tracks, not just how badly.
Silver Roman denarius bearing the image of Emperor Carausius found during East West Rail archaeological survey work

18.08.2026

Railway Dig Finds Coin of a Rogue Roman Emperor

UK: A coin unearthed during trial trenching for East West Rail carries the name of a man Rome tried to have executed — and who responded by declaring Britain an independent empire and minting his own currency to prove it.
California High-Speed Rail elevated guideway under construction in the Central Valley

18.08.2026

California HSR Narrows Depot Site to Fresno or Hanford

USA: California's high-speed rail authority has spent months evaluating 11 possible sites for its Central Valley maintenance depot; it's now down to two, and the choice will decide which of two Central Valley communities gets up to 2,100 permanent jobs.
The fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse in Portland, Oregon, adjacent to Union Pacific tracks

18.08.2026

Portland Detonates Centennial Mills Water Tower

USA: Railway Supply previously reported on the freight-safety standoff between Portland and Union Pacific over the fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse; the demolition itself finally began Monday, Aug.
North Station commuter rail platform in Boston, one of two terminals the proposed rail link would connect

18.08.2026

Harvard Study: Rail Tunnel Could Replace $4.7B Project

USA: A century-old idea to connect Boston's two disconnected commuter rail terminals could do something more than cut commute times, according to a new Harvard Kennedy School study — it could make a separate $4.