Iran Rail News
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January 21,2023Iran 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 Shahriar... -
November 12,2022The 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 Iranian...
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September 19,2022The 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...
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August 24,2022A 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 examine...
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June 12,2022The 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,...
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May 25,2022Tehran 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 May...
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April 30,2022Iran 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 cooperation...
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December 04,2021Providing 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 have...
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November 27,2021The 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. The network was...
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November 15,2021Three 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 Emam...
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November 03,2021The 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 capital’...
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October 25,2021The 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....
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October 09,2021The 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...
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September 24,2021The 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...
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September 19,2021Tehran 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....
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August 24,2021Authorities 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. On Tuesday,...
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August 08,2021Trains 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.
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August 06,2021Yazd-Eqlid railroad, a missing link from a triangle connecting three major tourist attractions of Isfahan, Yazd and Fars provinces, recently came on stream.
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July 26,2021Tehran 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 Qasemi, 3.6...
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July 12,2021The 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 added...
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June 19,2021Two subway stations in Line 6 and 7 of Tehran Metro were inaugurated on Thursday to speed up the development of traffic-free, green means of transportation. The stations were inaugurated by...
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May 30,2021Railroad officials in President Hassan Rouhani’s two-term government pursued rail infrastructure development as one of their main priorities from the onset. Railroads have expanded from 10,223...
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May 26,2021The semi-complete Phase 1 of Line 2 subway project of Karaj, the provincial capital of Alborz, requires 4.9 trillion rials ($21.6 million). According to a worksheet published by Karaj Urban and...
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May 21,2021The construction of a 32-kilometer-long Shalamcheh-Basra railroad, which will connect Iran and Iraq, is to start within a month using Iranian private sector investments, according to the deputy...
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May 17,2021A rail track-laying crane and its dual-purpose carrier, which can be used on both railroads and roads, have been manufactured for the first time in Iran by Paya Saman Pars Company, a subsidiary of...
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