by Tola Adenubi | 9 December 2024 Checks by the Nigerian Tribune have revealed that multiple handling charges have left the $1.5 billion Lagos-Ibadan cargo train stranded inside the Apapa...
Helen Corbett and Alan Jones, PA 4 December 2024 South Western Railway’s services will be the first to transfer into public ownership next year, followed by c2c and Greater...
By Janefrances Chibundu | October 30, 2024 https://www.thecable.ng/nrc-intensifies-efforts-to-tackle-ticket-racketeering-on-warri-itakpe-train-service/ The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it is stepping up measures to tackle ticket racketeering on the Warri-Itakpe train service. In a...
By Rowland Ataguba “And in the shadowless unclouded glare,Deep blue above us fades to whiteness where,A misty sealine meets the wash of air .” The immortal words of Sir John...
By Rowland Ataguba Travelling through London Bridge station last night evoking memories. Echoes of the Hop Exchange on Southwark Street and Network Rail’s then Major Projects & Investment unit....
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-to-unbundle-nigeria-railway-corporation-for-private-sector-investment/ The success of the locomotive retrofitting is firstly down to the innovation, tenacity and industry of the De Sadel Consortium, a gas, power and rail investor. Second, is...
Michael Holden | 18 September 2024 Arriva Group has published its recommendations to the UK Government on how using its five-step plan can help deliver an urgent reform. Accelerating The Government’s Ambition...
https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/london-glasgow-avanti-west-coast-edinburgh-pendolino-train-rail-breakdown-abington-4775886 The West Coast Main Line is the UK’s busiest railway corridor and between the Tories, DfT, Avanti, Network Rail and the ORR, we’ve had an almighty cock up...
https://www.voanews.com/a/key-chinese-belt-and-road-projects-underway-in-africa/7767507.html As FOCAC gets underway in Beijing in the next few days, it is not lost on its purpose of “equal consultation, enhancing understanding, expanding consensus, strengthening friendship and...
Bloomberg News | August 24, 2024 | News Africa Copper Lobito railway runs from Lobito port, on Angola’s Atlantic coast, to the DRC and Zambia. Credit: Ministry of Transport, Angola https://www.mining.com/web/scramble-for-critical-minerals-spurs-an-african-rail-revival/ Lots...