CSR has been awarded a contract to supply 23 five-car trains for Metro Line 2.
Bombardier Transportation Australia has awarded Balfour Beatty Rail a $A 14m ($US 14.6m) contract to provide the overhead catenary system for the first 13km phase of the Gold Coast LRT.
PRESIDENT Cristina Fernández of Argentina has appointed Mr Alejandro Ramos as federal transport secretary to replace Mr Juan Pablo Schiavi who resigned following unpopular remarks about a fatal train accident on February 22 in which 50 people died and more than 700 were injured.
HAMBURG-Köln-Express (HKX), which plans to launch an open-access passenger service between Hamburg and Cologne, has appointed Veolia as its operator.
MORE than Roubles 7bn ($US 240.3m) is to be invested this year by Russian Railways (RZD) to modernise stations in the Moscow area. Of this, Roubles 4.3bn will be spent on Moscow's main stations.
