Middle East railway industry news

Latest railway industry news from the Middle East, including operations, infrastructure, rolling stock and policy.

Haramain High Speed Railway

Haramain launches Jeddah airport service at 300 km/h

2019-12-11T14:12:00+00:00

SAUDI ARABIA: High speed services to and from Jeddah airport were launched on December 11.

TMH is to supply ENR with a total of 1 300 coaches

South African company joins the global supply chain with TMH contract

2019-12-11T11:04:00+00:00

EGYPT: The TMH International subsidiary of Russian rolling stock manufacturing group Transmashholding has awarded South African company SME Exports a contract to supply 800 heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for coaches ordered by Egyptian National Railways.

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Wabtec delivers locomotives to Egypt

2019-12-06T13:46:00+00:00

EGYPT: Wabtec has delivered 10 Evolution Series diesel locomotives to Egyptian National Railways and the Ministry of Transportation.

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Mianeh – Bostanabad line inaugurated

2019-12-02T14:41:00+00:00

IRAN: Revenue services have started operating on the first section of RAI’s cut-off which is intended to shorten the Tehran – Tabriz route serving the northwest of the country.

Saudi Railway Co train

Saudi Railway Co and Russian Railways to co-operate

2019-10-14T13:43:00+01:00

SAUDI ARABIA: Russian Railways Chief Executive Oleg Belozerov, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev and Saudi Railway Co CEO Dr Bashar Al Malik signed a co-operation agreement in Riyadh on October 14.

Etihad Rail train.

Etihad Rail awards Stage 2 systems & integration contract

2019-10-10T14:32:00+01:00

UAE: Project promoter Etihad Rail has awarded Hitachi Rail STS the 1·6bn dirham railway systems & integration contract for Stage 2 of the national network

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