Test train run Taijuan – Paris in 24 days 
Together with its Chinese and European partners, Transcontainer of Delo Group has arranged a test block train dispatch from Taiyuan city (Shanxi province, China) to Paris (France) via Mongolia, Russia and Belarus. The freight train carrying 50 containers loaded with consumer... more
NCRR: new rail spur
The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) is one of several partners named in the recent announcement that Liberty Storage Solutions is expanding its facility in Davie County. The storage shed manufacturer and distributor is building a new manufacturing facility at its... more
UK network expands fleet
Pall-Ex in UK is adding more urban delivery vehicles to its fleet to increase its share in the market. In total, the company has taken delivery of eight new vehicles in the last months as part of the first wave of a new investment, with more than ten similar vehicles due to... more
Making an old line new 
More than ten years ago Turkey, Iran and Pakistan initiated a joint project for a seamless container train linking the three countries. The undertaking was shelved in the interim. Now there’s life in the old lines yet, as the Iranian Railways’ Ali Abdollahi told the ITJ. more
20 candles for rolling highway
Rolling highway (rola) trains set off on the Freiburg (Germany) – Novara (Italy) route for the first time on 11 July 2001. As a pioneering user of the 4-m Simplon intermodal corridor, Swiss Rola operator RAlpin has since then shifted over 1.7 million heavy goods vehicles from... more
Ore export railway opened
The African SMB-Winning Consortium, Africa, which specialises in bauxite production, has inaugurated a new 125 km railway line in Guinea. Connecting important storage towns between Boké to Boffa with the river port of Dapilon, the new link will now transport ore destined for... more
Jumbo swap bodies save time
Germany-based freight forwarder Würfel is investing in jumbo swap bodies that feature a transfer plate for loading cargo into other swap bodies. This means that both jumbo swap bodies of a vehicle can be loaded or unloaded at the same time, using only one gate on the ramp for... more
Russian shunting locomotive delivered
The Lyudinovo Diesel Locomotive Plant (part of Sinara Group) recently produced and dispatched a TEM9 shunting diesel locomotive to the Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Association (part of the Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom). The four-axle shunter with... more
CSX extends green fleet
The US class I railway is partnering with Wabtec to accelerate sustainable rail services to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 37% by 2030. An early adopter of digital rail technologies, CSX will be the first railroad to demonstrate Wabtec’s trip optimiser zero-to-zero... more
Medway: more locomotives for Spain
The Portuguese railfreight operator is adding another eight locomotives to its fleet in Spain to complement the six already operating in this market. Of these eight new locomotives, four are diesel engines of the 333 model equipped with the Spanish ASFA railway safety system,... more