BRAZIL: Plans for a rail-served iron ore mine in the southern part of Bahia state are expected to move ahead, following the signing of agreements for the development of bulk export terminals at the new Porto Sul deep-water facility near Ilhéus and the founding of a special purpose company to

SLOVENIA: A firm contract for Stadler to supply a further 26 multiple-units was signed by national railway SŽ on May 27, as an option on an order placed in April 2018. The latest order is worth €151m excluding VAT, and covers 10 four-car 160 km /h Flirt EMUs equipped for 3 kV

CLASS 31 No. 31163 was well received by visitors at its home railway gala at Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway on April 5-7. It is currently carrying Railway Technical Centre livery and number 97205 (RM Feb, p90). No. 31163  is seen on the first day with Class 08 No. D3018 Haversham on a

The week of April 1-5 was an operations manager’s nightmare at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway as the only serviceable steam loco failed with a hot axle box on March 31.  The only option was to use Class 33/1 No. 33110, which had to cover Tuesday and Wednesday’s scheduled passenger trains as well as

UK: Stadler is moving forward with its four UK projects, the company told Railway Gazette at Railtex. The company expects to complete deliveries of the Greater Anglia fleet by the end of the year, having recently delivered the first of 10 EMUs for use on Stansted Express services. Stadler’s first

A NEW opinion poll has found that fewer than one in three people support proposals for increased competition on the railways.Various groups say that more competing operators would improve the service, with one of the more radical proposals coming from Virgin Group. In a submission to Keith Williams’ Rail Review,

Jubilee to be star attraction at the Tyseley Open Weekend on June 22/23.Powering six railtours during its summer holiday in the Midlands. Only months after the completion of its overhaul at Tyseley Locomotive Works and very successful runs over the Settle and Carlisle line, LMS Jubilee class locomotive

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: Bombardier Transportation is to install a Stratasys F900 3D printer at its Hennigsdorf plant. Purchased through Stratasys’ regional distributor Alphacam, the printer will use ULTEM 9085 resin to produce components previously made from glass fibre or tin. Bombardier intends to use the printer to produce interior and exterior

UZBEKISTAN: The Asian Development Bank has approved a US$170m loan to support the $218m procurement of 24 ‘state-of-the-art’ electric locomotives by national railway UTY, along with the modernisation of a depot in Toshkent. ADB said the eight passenger and 16 freight locomotives to be acquired under a modernisation programme running to

EUROPE: Food logistics company Euro Pool System has launched a thrice-weekly CoolRail dedicated temperature-controlled service to transport fresh produce between Valencia in Spain and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. This is intended to be first route of planned network of CoolRail services which would link Spain with Germany, Scandinavia and the UK. Euro