For consultancy teams working across the global light rail market, finding the right information quickly can be critical to delivering strategic projects. Gryphon is using Rail Intel’s Global Light Rail Portal to bring complex UK and international light rail data together in one place, helping its team quickly identify systems, developments and market activity relevant to its work.
Following a number of strategic light-rail consultancy appointments in late 2025, Gryphon was looking for a way to access a broad range of UK and international data and statistics to support its work.
The requirement highlighted a familiar challenge for consultancy teams working across the light rail sector: relevant information is available, but finding, validating and bringing it together can be complex and time-consuming.
The Global Light Rail Portal provides Gryphon with a centralised source of structured information covering light rail and metro systems around the world.
The use of filtering systems by country, system type and status, allows them to quickly identify relevant networks before exploring detailed information on operators, infrastructure and market developments.
This has proved particularly valuable when researching systems undergoing upgrades, extensions and other developments.
Gryphon describes the platform as:
“the ‘Google of all things Light-Rail”
and highlights its ability to quickly surface information that would otherwise require research across multiple sources.
Supporting consultancy with better market visibility
For Gryphon, the value of the portal extends beyond simply accessing data. The platform provides a practical way to support strategic assignments where understanding the wider market and individual system developments is critical.
As Gryphon explains: “The Rail Intel portal is particularly useful in quickly identifying those systems that are being upgraded, extended and so on.”
The portal is continually updated, giving consultancy teams access to current market intelligence as systems and projects evolve.
Gryphon has now incorporated the Global Light Rail Portal into its wider consultancy toolkit, describing the platform as:
“an integral part of our consultancy toolkit.”
For consultancies working across the light rail sector, having reliable global market intelligence readily available can provide a valuable foundation for research, analysis and strategic decision-making.
