Iran Rail News

An Iranian public bank has been chosen to finance the Mianeh-Ardabil railroad project worth 7.5 trillion rials ($178.57 million), the CEO of Iran’s Transportation Infrastructure Construction and…

The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways plans to add 134 locomotives, 2,800 cargo wagons, 54 intercity passenger wagons and 46 railbuses to its fleet by the end of the current fiscal year (March…

The finance and construction contract for Gorgan-Bojnord-Mashhad Railroad worth 100 trillion rials ($2.38 billion) was finalized between Iran’s Ghods Razavi Housing and Construction Company and…

The state monopoly Russian Railways considers its project on the electrification of the railroad in Iran completely civilian and not subject to US sanctions, the company’s CEO Oleg Belozerov…

European companies active in Iran’s rail sector have not yet taken a stance whether to continue or end their cooperation with the Iranian sides after the US unilateral pullout from Iran’s…

A contract worth 2.6 trillion rials ($62 million) to manufacture 100 gondola wagons was signed between the Wagon Pars company and a local company on Tuesday, the CEO of Wagon Pars said.

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Tehran-North Railroad feasibility project has gotten underway and is estimated to take at least two years, Mazandaran Governor General Mohammad Eslami said on Monday.

The project to electrify the 430-kilometer-long Garmsar-Sari-Gorgan-Incheh Borun Railroad will kick off in the current Iranian year (started March 21), the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of…

Section-3 of Khwaf-Herat Railroad, part of Iran-Afghanistan rail corridor, has made 80% progress, according to a delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways which recently visited Herat…

Three rail projects, namely Urmia, Rasht and the second track of Tabriz railroads, will come on stream in the first half of the current Iranian year that started on March 21, a deputy minister…

Despite Iran’s strategic ambitions, routing for freight trains along its emerging transport corridors still faces a host of infrastructural and political challenges.

More than 1.85 million passengers were transported via railroads in Iran during the Iranian New Year holidays, known as Norouz, from March 16 to April 4. 

“The figure indicates a 10…