CHINA Southern Rolling Stock (CSR) subsidiary CSR Qingdao Sifang has unveiled a new-high-speed test train which is designed to operate at speeds of up to 500km/h.
DANISH infrastructure manager Banedanmark has selected Alstom and a joint venture of Thales and Balfour Beatty Rail as preferred bidders for two contracts to resignal Denmark's entire 2132km mainline network with ETCS Level 2 by 2021.
THE Czech subsidiary of OHL Group, Spain, has won a €1.95bn contract to build the 390km Ural Polar railway in northern Russia.
THE prospect of a direct rail link from the coal mines of Mozambique's western Tete province and the Indian Ocean port of Nacala via Malawi has moved a step closer following the signing of a build-and-operate concession agreement between the Malawian government and mining giant Vale.
RAIL services between Thailand and Cambodia could finally be restored in 2013 after the governments of the two countries reached a new agreement to rebuild the missing 48km section between Poipet and Sisophon.
Having received 44 SD70ACe locomotives at the start of 2011, Ferromex, Mexico, ended the year with the delivery of a further batch of 38 units from EMD, taking its total SD70ACe fleet to almost 100.
THE director of Brazil's National Land Transport Agency (ANTT) Mr Bernardo Figueiredo announced on January 18 that the tender for Phase 1 of the Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Campinas high-speed project, which involves selecting an operator and the technology for the new railway, has been delayed until October.
