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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

A Chiltern Railways Class 168 test train for East West Rail at Milton Keynes Central

16.08.2026

RMT Rejects Chiltern’s East West Rail Staffing Plan

UK: A new onboard job title wasn't enough to end a year-long staffing dispute that's kept East West Rail's first passenger trains from running — because the role Chiltern Railways proposed still doesn't include opening the doors.
Completed underground high-speed platforms at HS2’s Old Oak Common station in west London

16.08.2026

HS2 Completes Six Platforms at Old Oak Common

UK: Deep inside an 850-metre concrete box in west London, HS2 has finished the six underground platforms that will start the railway's journey from London to Birmingham — built from nearly 2,000 precast slabs assembled from both ends of the box until the two halves met in the middle.
Greater Anglia Class 720 train on the Great Eastern Main Line at Rivenhall, Essex

16.08.2026

Second UK Train Derails Within 24 Hours in Essex

UK: Less than a day after two passengers were seriously injured when a Southern train came off the tracks near Lewes, a second train derailed in Essex — this time with no injuries reported, but enough to make Network Rail's safety chief address both incidents together in one statement.
Edmonton Transit Service Siemens SD-160 train on the Capital Line at University station

16.08.2026

Edmonton’s New LRVs Built for -40°C, Rotem Says

CANADA: The eight additional light rail vehicles Edmonton has ordered from Hyundai Rotem aren't news on their own — Railway Supply reported the same 32-to-40-car expansion last week — but the manufacturer's explanation of why the order landed in Edmonton at all is worth a closer look.
VIA Rail Siemens Venture train 2203 at Fallowfield station in Ottawa

16.08.2026

Go Alto Says the Rail Demand Already Exists

CANADA: A campaign group backing Canada's Alto high-speed rail project is making its case with a number, not a slogan — more than 200 direct flights a day already connect the cities Alto would serve, on top of millions of existing VIA Rail passengers and tens of thousands of daily highway vehicles.
Canadian Pacific locomotives hauling a freight train through Crowsnest Pass in British Columbia

16.08.2026

CPKC Strikers Reject Offer After 11 Weeks

CANADA: Eleven weeks into a strike that has kept about 300 CPKC signal and communications workers off the job, their union says the numbers just got clearer — 89% of members who voted rejected the railway's latest contract offer.
Container stacks and gantry crane at the Appalachian Regional Port in Crandall, Georgia

16.08.2026

Georgia’s Appalachian Port Posts Record July

USA: Georgia's Appalachian Regional Port just posted its busiest July on record — an acceleration that comes weeks after Railway Supply reported the same inland terminal's full-year volume record for fiscal 2026.
Amtrak Northeast Regional train crossing the WALK Bridge over the Norwalk River in Connecticut

16.08.2026

New Haven Line Faces Five Weekend Service Cuts

USA: Riders on Connecticut's busiest commuter line should expect about 30% fewer seats than usual on five separate weekends this fall — and for two of them, electric trains will be swapped for diesel entirely while crews tear down 130-year-old bridge infrastructure.
Aerial view of the elevated CTA Green Line Austin station structure in Chicago

16.08.2026

CTA’s Austin Station Gets First Upgrade Since 1962

USA: A Chicago Green Line station that opened in 1899 and hadn't been touched since 1962 now has an elevator, an escalator and a wheelchair ramp — and with it, the Chicago Transit Authority has crossed the 75% mark for system-wide accessibility.
Front entrance of San Jose Diridon station in San Jose, California

16.08.2026

32,000 SJSU Students Get Free Bay Area Transit

USA: Starting this week, San José State students no longer have to choose which Bay Area transit agency they can afford to ride — a new Clipper BayPass gives an estimated 32,000 eligible students free, unlimited access to 24 operators at once, including BART and Caltrain.
BART riders waiting on a platform as a train arrives at San Francisco International Airport station

16.08.2026

BART Board Responds to Grand Jury Oversight Report

USA: A civil grand jury looked past BART's well-documented budget gap and found something narrower but just as telling — the transit agency's own oversight bodies don't answer to each other the way BART's governing documents say they should.
Portland vs. Union Pacific Over Hazmat Cars at Fire Site

16.08.2026

Portland Presses Union Pacific Over Hazmat Rail Cars

USA: As demolition finally begins on Portland's fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse, a separate dispute has surfaced: the city says Union Pacific ran 13 rail cars carrying residual hazardous materials past the unstable building, despite the railroad's earlier promise to restrict such traffic through the collapse zone.