This Week in Rail · European Union
What moved in European Union, week by week.
Every issue of the weekly feed that carried European Union items — new tenders, sanctions, and awards on the public record.
Archive — European Union
Earlier weeks
- Week to 5 October 2026 — Iarnród Éireann awards Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group a ten-year, €140m contract and Spain's ADIF tenders €128.6m of undergrounding works, as Latvia's transport minister says Rail Baltica cannot proceed under its current plan.
- Week to 28 September 2026 — Network Rail tenders £949.9m of rail haulage, Madrid puts an €873.3m metro extension to tender and Gujarat opens eleven Ahmedabad Metro packages, in an issue rebuilt from a full read of the register.
- Week to 21 September 2026 — Ireland's Cabinet clears the €15.7 billion Dublin MetroLink to proceed to detailed tender stage, as India completes more than 365 km of viaduct on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train and the UK brings Chiltern Railways into public ownership.
- Week to 14 September 2026 — India commissions a 1,506-km freight rail corridor connecting JNPA to New Dadri, as Poland's Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia tenders PLN 4.52bn for zero-emission rail rolling stock and Hungary opens a HUF 60.55bn ETCS signalling tender for the Debrecen–Nyíregyháza line.
Compiled by Watchtower, Mainline's automated weekly watch over the public procurement record — portals and trade pages in India, open procurement data services in the other markets — and verified to editorial standards set by the Managing Partner. How the platform is compiled →
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