With the sale of its power generation and turbine business to GE at the end of last year, Alstom has been left to focus entirely on its rail activities. Chairman and CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge explains the company's growth strategy to Keith Barrow.

Formed following the merger of Chinese state-owned companies CSR and CNR in June 2015, CRRC is by some distance the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer. While its rise is based largely on demand from its vast domestic market, the company is now engaged in a push to boost exports, as vice-president Weiping Yu reveals in an exclusive interview with Kevin Smith.

VOITH has fitted a British class 158 DMU with two DiwaRail hydro-mechanical transmissions in a trial project with leasing company Angel Trains and operator Arriva Trains Wales.

PLANS to expand the Paris RER network to the west of the city received a significant boost on February 6, when French prime minister Mr Manuel Valls confirmed that the government will contribute a further €500m towards the €3.7bn extension of Paris RER Line E from St Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie.

MONTREAL's Metropolitan Transit Agency (AMT) has awarded ABB a contract to supply 26 new auxilliary converters for the fleet of Bombardier MR-90 commuter EMUs used on the Deux-Montagnes Line.

THE Mayor of London Mr Boris Johnson has given Transport for London (TfL) the go-ahead to seek legal powers for the construction of a 4km extension of the London Overground network from Barking to Barking Riverside.

Infrastructure managers face the twin challenges of ageing infrastructure and demands for increased capacity and performance, so news that a German company has developed ways to streamline the reconstruction and upgrading of these essential structures should be most welcome, as John Stenmark* reports.

Funding and soft loans from European Union facilities and affiliated organisations promise to deliver long-awaited Eastern European rail infrastructure improvements over the next decade or so. Artur Perchel, manager, Central Eastern Europe & Israel at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), assesses the impact.

Rolling stock using Saudi Arabia's North-South Railway has suffered from severe wheel-wear issues since the line opened in 2011. Success in overcoming this problem provides lessons for the design of future desert heavy-haul networks as Thomas Hewitt, project manager rolling stock at Canarail, explains.