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California high-speed rail signs consortium deal

12.08.2026

California High-Speed Rail Faces December 2027 Funding Risk

Green high-speed train travelling through a snowy landscape in an Alto project visual

12.08.2026

ALTO’s 24 Million Ridership Target Faces Methodology Test

Jodhpur-Delhi Vande Bharat Set for 20 Coaches

12.08.2026

India’s Second Vande Bharat Sleeper Was Announced — but a Different Train Entered Service

California high-speed rail signs consortium deal

12.08.2026

California High-Speed Rail Faces December 2027 Funding Risk

USA: California’s high-speed rail project could exhaust the cash needed to stay on its planned Merced–Bakersfield construction schedule by December 2027 unless financing is secured, according to the project’s inspector general.
Five Brightline trainsets at Workshop b in West Palm Beach, Florida

12.08.2026

Cocoa Brightline Station Secures $56.48M Federal Grant

USA: Cocoa’s planned Brightline station has secured a $56. 48 million federal rail grant, clearing its largest funding hurdle and moving the Space Coast stop closer to construction.
Five bidders are competing for the Mathikere double-decker station, rail-over-road viaduct and multimodal works in Bengaluru.

12.08.2026

Five Bidders Compete for Bengaluru Double-Deck Station

INDIA: Five infrastructure groups have bid for a Bengaluru suburban rail package centred on Mathikere’s double-decker station, where suburban tracks are planned above a road flyover within Corridor 2.
Blue-and-white Vande Bharat Express trainset beside an electrified railway track.

12.08.2026

Vande Bharat Starts Ghat Trials for Bengaluru–Mangaluru

INDIA: A specially modified 20-car Vande Bharat fitted with Automatic Emergency Braking has begun trials on the Sakleshpur–Subrahmanya Road ghat, a key step toward the proposed Bengaluru–Mangaluru service.
Aerial view of an intermodal rail yard with container trains at the Port of Tacoma.

11.08.2026

Intermodal Terminals Weekly Review: August 5–11, 2026

INTERNATIONAL: This concise weekly review presents a selection of intermodal terminal news published from August 5 to August 11, 2026: new rail links, terminal capacity and transloading networks.
Norfolk Southern SD40-2 locomotive 3414 leading a local freight train at Lancaster Station in Pennsylvania

11.08.2026

Pennsylvania Raises Four-Year Freight Rail Funding to $240M

USA: Pennsylvania has allocated $240 million to freight rail in the first four years of its newly adopted 12-year transportation program, up $4 million from the comparable allocation in the previous plan.
Uptown platform at Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station in Lower Manhattan

11.08.2026

New York Studies Thermal Network for 96°F Subway Platforms

USA: New York City and the MTA will study whether a thermal energy network can cool Lower Manhattan subway platforms where average temperatures reached 96°F in summer 2025 while storing excess heat for winter use.
Railcare MPV vacuum maintenance machine with its suction hose beside railway track in Sweden

11.08.2026

Railcare Vacuum Maintenance Set for Sweden’s 2027 Framework

SWEDEN: Railcare has signed a new framework agreement with the Swedish Transport Administration that will keep its vacuum-based railway maintenance method available for call-off construction and maintenance work from 1 February 2027.
BART train at Berryessa/North San José station with the station sign visible beside the platform.

11.08.2026

BART and The Portal Feature in Bay Area’s $13.8B Draft Plan

USA: The Bay Area’s draft 2027–2030 Transportation Improvement Program places BART Silicon Valley Phase II and The Portal among more than 400 projects backed by $13.
Network Rail civils framework has £113M estimated spend for tunnel, bridge and coastal examinations across Wales & Western.

11.08.2026

Network Rail awards civils framework with £113M estimate

UK: Network Rail has awarded an eight-year civils examinations framework with an estimated £113 million spend to inspect critical structures across its Wales and Great Western routes.
Northbound Amtrak Cascades train arriving at Vancouver, Washington

11.08.2026

Amtrak Extends Seattle–Portland Rail Suspension to Aug. 14

USA: Amtrak has extended the Seattle–Portland rail suspension through Aug. 14 as collapse concerns at Portland’s fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse continue to restrict passenger service, with buses covering most scheduled trains.
Kharsia Parmalkasa railway project includes a 110.5 km EPC tender from Kharsia to Balodabazar for track, structures and systems.

11.08.2026

₹3,103.69 Crore Tender for 110.5 km Chhattisgarh Rail Line

INDIA: A ₹3,103. 69 crore EPC tender covers 110.