THE first of 75 new six-car EMUs for South East Queensland commuter services arrived in Brisbane, Australia, on February 16.

INDRA, Spain, is to supply ticketing equipment and information technology to Argentinian State Railways (SOFSA) in a €35m deal.

AUSTRALIAN ports and logistics group Qube and its consortium partners are a step closer to gaining control of Asciano, the parent company of Australia's second largest rail freight operator, Pacific National.

TWO Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) working on Qatar's Doha Metro Green Line have successfully completed their sections of tunnelling.

DB Cargo has launched a new subsidiary in the Czech Republic called DB Cargo Czechia. It is the 16th state in which the German freight operator has launched an independent operation.

RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) is to order 507 new diesel and electric locomotives in 2016 at a cost of Roubles 69.2bn ($US 897m).

INDONESIAN Transport Minister Mr Ignasius Jonan says the country will purchase up to 400 locomotives from General Electric or Electro-Motive Diesel as part of its rail expansion plans.

BOMBARDIER Transportation is to supply French National Railways (SNCF) with four additional eight-car Regio 2N double-deck EMUs in a deal worth €34m.

THE conglomerate building Manila's overhead Metro Rail Transit Line 7 has secured funding for its construction. Conglomerate San Miguel says its subsidiary Universal LRT, which holds the concession for the 23km route, has now "fully complied" with the financial closure requirements of the concession agreement.

PUGLIA regional operator Ferrotramviaria marked the completion of another phase in the modernisation of its train fleet on February 11, when three new four-car ETR 452 EMUs were formally presented to regional councillor Mr Giovanni Giannini by the railway's president Mrs Gloria Pasquini and by the company's general director Mr Massimo Nitti in Bari.