Iran Rail News

A knowledge-based company has developed a passenger information system (PIS) that is mainly used in subways to make announcements and broadcast promotional videos, the CEO of Madar Tarah-e Arad…

A railroad connecting Rasht and Astara in Iran, which should become part of the International North-South Transportation Corridor, will be built by the end of 2027, Russian First Deputy Prime…

The Iraqi Republic Railways Company and its Iranian counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Sunday, outlining executive procedures for establishing a rail connection between…

The total length of Iran’s railroad network stood at 15,037 kilometers by the end of last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2023), the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development reported. The report…

Iran’s rail freight fleet recorded the loading of 37.13 million tons of goods during the first 10 months of last Iranian year (March 21, 2022-Jan. 20), according to the Islamic Republic of Iran…

Iran and Russia have reached an agreement for the construction of the Rasht-Astara railroad project. Iran’s Deputy Transport and Urban Development Minister for Transportation Affairs …

The inauguration of sections of Zahedan-Khash railroad was attended by First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, Governor General of Sistan-Baluchestan Hossein Modarres-Khiabani and a group of…

The government’s five prioritized rail projects, namely Khash-Zahedan, Bostanabad-Tabriz, Mianeh-Ardabil, Hamedan-Sanandaj and Rasht-Caspian, have made an average progress of 75% and all are…

A Russian delegation of railroad officials met with the head of the Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructure Company of Iran, Kheirollah Khademi, in Tehran on Monday to…

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines has started piloting the multimodal cargo transit along the International North-South Transportation Corridor carrying goods from Russia to India,…

Tehran is hosting the Ninth International Exhibition of Rail Transportation, Equipment and Related Industries. The four-day event, held at Tehran’s International Fairground, will conclude on…

Iran and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding on expanding transportation cooperation between the two sides in the rail sector in Moscow on Friday.  The comprehensive rail…

Providing decent public transportation services to Tehran’s satellite cities has long been a concern of urban managers, as the population in these cities is growing steadily. Urban officials…

The subway project of Karaj, the provincial center of Alborz, has stalled over lack of funds and mismanagement, as progress faltered interminably since its inception in 2006. 

Three stations will come on stream in the under-construction Line 7 of Tehran Metro by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2022), the head of Tehran Metro Company said. According to Ali…

The domestic engineering and energy giant, MAPNA Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding for the project to extend the capital’s subway to the working district of Eslamshahr in the…

The expansion of Tehran’s subway network has become the core part of the capital's mobility plan and more people are discovering it as a cost-effective, traffic-free mode of transportation…

The development of high-speed, decent transportation has gained traction with the allocation of funds for projects in the holy cities of Mashhad and Qom. The government recently allocated 19…

The subway project of Tabriz, the provincial center of East Azarbaijan, has received 7 trillion rials ($25.4 million) in new funding in the current Iranian year (started March 21), as the…

Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company is renovating subway trains to quickly optimize the environmentally friendly mode of transportation before the likely opening of schools in October.…

Authorities in Tehran are working hard to overcome obstacles in the way of subway construction to provide people with a more efficient and environmentally friendly mode of transit.

Trains operated on the Tehran-Tabriz-Sharafkhaneh-Salmas route and back as of August 7, according to the director general of Azarbaijan Region’s Railway Organization.

Yazd-Eqlid railroad, a missing link from a triangle connecting three major tourist attractions of Isfahan, Yazd and Fars provinces, recently came on stream. The railroad was inaugurated via…

Tehran Metro’s extension to Eslamshahr, a working district in the southwest, requires 13 trillion rials ($52 million), one of the county’s municipal officials said.  According to Reza…

The subway network in the capital city of Tehran will have at least eight more stations by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2022), the head of Tehran Metro Company said. Ali Emam…