Learn how rail operators are overcoming cost, grid, and operational challenges to decarbonise traction. Expert insights cover hydrogen, battery, and electrification strategies, plus depot and real-time coordination solutions.

Welcome to 2025’s Autumn/ Winter issue of Global Railway Review!
The dynamism of our sector has never been more apparent, driven by technological leaps, evolving societal demands, and an urgent global imperative for sustainable solutions.

€1.03 billion contract will deliver new commuter and regional trains for Portugal while creating a new manufacturing facility and hundreds of jobs.

Alstom will supply its I-CBTC onboard signalling system for Paris Metro Line 8 as part of the OCTYS 2030 network modernisation programme.

DB Cargo UK honours Plasmor founder Antony Slater with locomotive naming as the companies mark a renewed five year rail freight partnership.

Huawei and CASCO launch the first FRMCS-based TACN train system, delivering moving block operations and increasing rail transport capacity by 60% on deployed freight corridors.

Advanced traffic control systems will support the new high speed rail tunnel in Lodz, a key part of Poland’s future Y rail corridor.

Funding programme will support community development, workforce training and local projects alongside construction of the new Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore.