AUSTRALIA's federal government and the state of Queensland have agreed to investigate the possibility of incorporating the residual Queensland Rail (QR) narrow gauge regional rail network into the national network.
QATAR Railways, which is responsible for the construction of Doha's 354km four-line metro, has awarded a €506m contract to a consortium led by FCC, Spain, to build a section of the Red Line.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has become the sixth European railway infrastructure manager to join the European partnership for railway energy settlement (Eress), a non-profit group which has been set up to implement accurate metering and billing of traction energy consumption.
THE BOARD of Ile-de-France transport authority Stif approved draft plans for the €2bn western extension of Paris RER Line E from St Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie on March 5.
BOMBARDIER's F140 AC LM 'Last Mile' electro-diesel locomotive entered service with Swiss railfreight operator BLS Cargo on March 6, when one of the class 187 locomotives was used to haul new multiple units from the Stadler plant at Bussnang to a non-electrified freight terminal in Visp.
THE government of Sri Lanka has selected a Chinese contractor to build the 88km extension of the Colombo – Matara – Beliatta line to Kataragama in the south of country.
SOUTH West Trains (SWT) and Britain's transport minister Mr Stephen Hammond unveiled the first two of its additional class 458/5 five car emus at London's Waterloo station on March 7.
THE expansion of Positive Train Control and upgrading of a key section of the Washington DC – New York – Boston Northeast Corridor (NEC) for 257km/h operation are among the highlights of Amtrak's 2014 infrastructure programme, which was announced on March 10.
THE first three lines of the 12-line Moscow Metro are now equipped with free-to-use WiFi, and the entire 325.5km 194 station network should be fully fitted by September.
HANNOVERIANS had their first opportunity to sample the city's new type TW 3000 light rail vehicles on March 8, when two of the trams carried a total of 3200 passengers on free demonstration trips between Main Station and Allerweg in the city centre.
