THE municipal government of The Hague and Arriva have abandoned plans to launch an open-access cross-border service linking the Dutch city with Brussels, which was due to begin operating in December 2015.
DELHI celebrated the launch of public services on the first section of the third phase of the city's metro network on June 26, when India's minister for urban development Mr Venkaiah Naudu inaugurated the 3.2km extension of Line 6 from Central Secretariat to Mandi House.
THE CEO of German Rail (DB) Dr Rüdiger Grube has opened what DB claims to be Europe's first CO2-free station at Kerpen-Horrem, between Cologne and Aachen.
THE National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines has approved the sole private-public partnership offer to build, operate and maintain an extension to LRT1 in Manila.
A JOINT study by the Norwegian and Swedish infrastructure managers, Jernbaneverket and Trafikverket, recommends upgrading the heavy-haul line linking Kiruna and Narvik to meet a forecast growth in traffic.
THE Australian state of New South Wales has announced that the Northwest Rapid Transit consortium has been selected as the preferred operator for the $A 8.3bn ($US 7.79bn) North West Rail Link in Sydney.
THE first of the fleet of 115 class 700 EMUs being supplied by Siemens for the upgraded cross-London Thameslink network has been tested successfully at its maximum operating speed of 160km/h at the Wildenrath test centre in Germany.
LIMMATTALBAHN has issued a call for tender for contracts to manage the tendering and realisation of the civil works and railway technology elements of a SFr 715m ($US 797m) project to build a 13.4km light rail line in the Limmat Valley of the Zurich area.
A CONSORTIUM of Qatari Diar Vinci Construction (QDVC) and Alstom was awarded a €2bn design-build contract by Qatar Railways for the Lusail light rail project at a ceremony in Paris on June 23 attended by President François Hollande of France and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Tani, Emir of Qatar.
BRITAIN's chancellor of the exchequer Mr George Osborne has called for the construction of a third high-speed line between Manchester and Leeds as part of a plan to create a "northern powerhouse" stretching from Liverpool to Sheffield and Hull.
