AFTER six months of preparatory works, construction began on April 18 on Scotland's £294m Borders Railway project, which involves rebuilding a 48km section of Edinburgh – Carlisle line between Newcraighall and Tweedbank.
CONSTRUCTION has reportedly been suspended on a 468km railway in Venezuela because the government has failed to pay the Chinese contractor for work already carried out on the project.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a contract worth around Rs 2.5bn ($US 47m) to supply its Cityflo 350 integrated train control and signalling system for two metro extensions in the Indian capital.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced the shortlist of prequalified bidders for the contract to operate the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from September 14 2014.
CALIFORNIA High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has revealed details of the five bids submitted in January for the contract to design and build the first section of the state's high-speed network.
RAIL access to Munich Franz-Jozef Strauss International Airport is set to improve significantly after German Rail (DB) and the state of Bavaria reached an agreement to build a new connection between the airport and the Munich – Regensburg line.
SALT Lake City inaugurated the latest phase of its Trax light rail network on April 13, when a free preview service gave residents their first chance to travel on the 9.7km line to Salt Lake International Airport.
US national passenger rail operator Amtrak says ridership on its services continued to increase steadily in the first half of the 2013 financial year (October 2012 – March 2013), despite the disruption to the network in the northeast caused by Hurricane Sandy last October.
AN express metro is to be constructed from Beijing South station to the Chinese capital's new airport which will be built in the southern district of Daxing. The line is expected to be 37km long and with a journey time of around 30 minutes.
BRITISH rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook has awarded Vossloh Kiepe a £40m contract to supply IGBT traction equipment for the fleet of 91 class 455 emus used by South West Trains on commuter services from London Waterloo.
