THE British parliament's Public Accounts Committee has published a scathing report on last year's cancellation of West Coast franchise by the Department for Transport (DfT).
THE European Union (EU) will allocate Lats 400m ($US 752m) towards a programme to electrify Latvia's railway network, according to a statement issued by the Latvian Ministry of Transport. The Ministry says that the work is scheduled to begin by the end of this year and will last up to 2020.
HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) is to merge its passenger, traction, and rolling stock maintenance subsidiaries into a single business unit from April 1 as part of a restructuring which will also see the creation of an independent infrastructure manager.
THE Spanish Government has issued a decree outlining its final plans to partially open profitable passenger rail routes to competition, particularly those which operate on the extensive high-speed rail network.
THE LENGTH of Salt Lake City's commuter rail network almost doubled on February 22, when Utah Transit Authority (UTA) opened its FrontRunner South extension from Salt Lake Central to Provo.
ALSTOM and Thales have been selected by JR East to negotiate a contract to install communications-based train control (CBTC) on the Ayase - Toride Joban Local suburban line in Tokyo with a view to awarding a contract to one of the companies in December. JR East plans to introduce CBTC on the line in about 2020.
GERMAN federal transport minister Dr Peter Ramsauer signed an agreement with the state government of Bavaria on February 18 to finance the modernisation of the Munich – Mühldorf – Freilassing – Salzburg line.
AN Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) RailJet train made a special tour through the Czech Republic yesterday in preparation for the launch of joint operation of RailJet trains by ÖBB and Czech Railways (CD) in December 2014 on the Graz – Vienna Brno – Prague corridor. The service will operate at two-hourly intervals.
JAKARTA's long-abandoned monorail project, which left rows of supporting pillars in Senayan in Central Jakarta and Kuningen in the south of the city, could be set for a revival following a fresh injection of funds from Ortus, Singapore.
A trial run of the first train in Russia to use new double-deck coaches was successfully carried out by Russian Railways' (RZD) Federal Passenger Company (FPC) subsidiary in Murmansk region on February 20.
