UNION Pacific (UP) has taken complete ownership of an important north-south railway though Oklahoma, three decades after state officials saved it from closure.
SLOVAKIA's Transport Minister Mr Ján Počiatek announced on October 8 that a €420m project to build a north-south rail link under the centre of Bratislava will be delayed until after 2014.
TRIAL operation began on October 8 on the 921km high-speed line linking Harbin in northeastern China with Changchun, Shenyang and Dalian on the Bohai Straits. Commercial operation is expected to start at the end of the year.
MILAN Transport (ATM) has awarded AnsaldoBreda a €210m contract to supply 30 six-car trains which will replace older rolling stock on metro lines 1 and 2.
TRENSURB, the metro operator in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, issued tender documents on October 8 for a contract to supply 15 four-car emus which will supplement its existing train fleet.
GREATER Vancouver transport authority Translink has selected a consortium led by SNC-Lavalin as preferred bidder for the contract to finance, design, and build the $C 1.4bn ($US 1.43bn) Skytrain Evergreen Line.
FULL commercial services began today on the first light rail line in the Argentinean city of Mendoza. The Green Line runs for 12.5km along the alignment of a former heavy-rail line between Mendoza Station and General Gutiérrez in the suburb of Maipú.
TANZANIA Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) has entered negotiations with SMH Rail, Malaysia, over the rehabilitation of locomotives and wagons as part of an effort to ease the railway's chronic stock shortage.
THE government of the Australian state of Queensland has announced plans to sell approximately half of the shareholding it retained in QR National (QRN) following partial privatisation of the railfreight operator in November 2010.
STATE-owned Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash will ship three type 843 LRVs to Saint Petersburg by the end of the year, company representatives have confirmed.
