Iran Rail News

The expansion of the Iranian capital city’s subway network is a challenging task for urban managers, who are struggling to secure financial resources to accomplish the same.

A subway development project in Karaj, the central city of Alborz Province, is in progress and two stations will be launched by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2021).

A clinker transportation rail line was recently launched in the southern Khuzestan Province’s Shalamcheh border checkpoint.

A total of 122 domestically-made and overhauled rolling stock worth 3.66 trillion rials ($13.28 million) joined Iran’s rail fleet on Wednesday, during a ceremony attended by Minister of Roads…

Tehran Municipality’s investment organization will inject non-cash resources worth 22 trillion rials ($76.65 million) to boost the construction of Tehran Metro’s Line 10. Shokrollah Banar, the…

Iran’s Wagon Pars Company, a manufacturer of rolling stock, has manufactured 275 freight and passenger wagons since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 20, 234 of which have…

Iran and Afghanistan will be connected through the Khaf-Herat railroad next month, according to the minister of roads and urban development. “The rail route between Iran and Afghanistan has…

Plans for development and expansion of subway networks in Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Shiraz are gaining momentum. The municipality of Ahvaz, the provincial center of Khuzestan, has forged an…

Amid the third wave of Covid-19 infections in Iran, the number of subway passengers has recently risen by 10% and made the bad situation worse, Tehran Metro’s CEO said.

The development of public transportation has been high on Tehran urban managers’ agenda, for which the capital launched the construction of the subway’s Line 10 last week. According to Tehran…

Raja Passenger Train Company has launched a five-star train called “Zendegi (Life)” between Rasht, the capital city of Gilan Province, and Mashhad, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, with…

A total of 70 domestically-made and overhauled rolling stock worth 73 billion rials ($2.88 million) recently joined Iran’s rail fleet. The additions included newly-manufactured 59 freight and 2…

Providing people with decent public transportation services is of high importance worldwide and there is much room for improvement in Iranian cities.  Plans are on track in cities like…

The railroad project connecting the central province of Yazd to Fars Province in southwest Iran will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2021), a deputy minister of…

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to the Iranian rail sector. A total of 1.1 million passengers were transported by the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways in the first quarter of…

Khaf-Herat railroad project is scheduled to be launched this autumn (Sept. 22-Dec. 20), says the deputy head of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructure Company, affiliated…

The unfinished subway network in the capital city of Tehran needs 2 quadrillion rials ($8.1 billion) of budget for the construction of unfinished lines, purchase of train cars and…

The number of Covid-19 infections in the capital city of Tehran has hit an emergency level in the past several days, while a large number of residents commute to work using public means of…

A total of 65 domestically-made and overhauled rolling stock worth 1.56 trillion rials ($7.6 million) joined Iran’s rail fleet on June 30. The event was attended by Minister of Roads and Urban…

The second track of Karaj-Qazvin Railroad was inaugurated by President Hassan Rouhani on June 18 via videoconferencing. 

Tehran Municipality is pushing forward the expansion of the capital’s subway system, with officials saying that economic headwinds and Covid-19 should not be a pretext for halting the initiative…

The resumption of traffic schemes in Tehran as of last week has reduced traffic congestion in the city’s thoroughfares, but it is increasing passenger density in subway trains, heightening…

The government is offering a total of 9.4 trillion rials (53.4 million) as low interest loans (12%) to rail passenger transportation companies to help them get back on their feet after they…

The outbreak of Covid-19 in Iran since mid-February has saddled Tehran Metro Company with a massive loss of 2 trillion rials ($11.2 million), the head of the company said. Speaking at a press…

Traffic schemes in Tehran resumed as of Saturday, pushing more people toward using public transportation and increasing the spread of coronavirus. Many experts have cautioned that the…