INDIA's Railways Ministry says it expects to begin work soon on a detailed project report for the country's first high-speed line with the aim of inviting global tenders for the Rs 650bn ($US 11.8bn) Pune – Mumbai – Ahmedabad project by November 2013.
UNION Pacific (UP) has begun testing an experimental low-emissions locomotive which will be used to evaluate the performance of aftertreatment technologies, including exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs), and diesel particulate filters (DPFs).
ZAMBIAN president Mr Michael Sata has directed the country's newly-appointed justice minister Mr Wynter Kabimba to launch a review of the freight and passenger concession agreement involving the government, Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) and New Limpopo Bridge Projects Investment, which was signed in 2003.
SNCF GEODIS is claiming a European first after transporting 55m-long wind turbine blades by rail from Germany to Denmark.
THE integrated structure of railways in Germany and Austria does not contravene European legislation on liberalisation, according to European Court of Justice Advocate General Mr Niilo Jääskinen, who today delivered his opinions on infringement actions brought against several European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission (EC).
SWEDISH regional public transport authority Östgötatrafiken has awarded Alstom a €50m contract to supply eight additional X61 Coradia Nordic 15kV ac emus under a framework agreement signed in 2008.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has awarded a consortium of Siemens and Kapsch CarrierCom a €93m contract to equip 230km of the under construction high-speed line from Halle and Leipzig to Ebensfed via Erfurt with ERTMS Level 2.
CHINA's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on September 5 that it has approved plans for 25 urban rail projects worth a total of more than Yuan 800bn ($US 127bn).
THE MUNICIPALITY of Odense has appointed Cowi, Denmark, as technical consultant, together with Systra, France, and ETC, Germany, as sub-consultants, for the development of the first light rail line in the Danish city.
CSR Corporation announced today that a joint venture of its subsidiary CSR Qingdao Sifang and Kawasaki Heavy Industries has been awarded a contract by Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) to supply 132 type C151B metro cars for the city's rapidly-expanding network.
