Robert Schwandl's Urban Rail Blog

Adelaide Trams Adelaide boasts a single, but rather modern tram line, the only line that survived the general closure of the network in the ...

The reintroduction of trams in Sydney was rather an anecdotical event, as still today the only existing line is hardly present in the people...

CityRail can without doubt be classified as a MASS transit system, but it is certainly not a RAPID transit system. It is indeed one of the s...

Knowing that Brisbane and the Queensland government are obsessed by buses and the construction of busways it is actually surprising that it ...

When I left my accomodation near South Yarra station for the first time last week to explore the city's urban rail system, I thought, th...

Melbourne appeared to me as a great city from the beginning, and even a week later I think it is quite a good place to live, not only becaus...

When it comes to suburban rail, New Zealand's capital city Wellington is certainly number one in the country, with four electrified line...

Of the three largest cities in New Zealand, Christchurch is without doubt the one with the least developed public transport system, which is...

Considering the size of New Zealand's largest city with over one million inhabitants, the suburban rail system is rather insufficient. F...

The following text is actually a report I wrote after returning from my first trip to Moscow in July 2010: The Moscow Metro is certainly uni...