CANADIAN Pacific Railway (CP) has agreed to sell the western section of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railway (DM&E), which it acquired in 2008, to Genesee & Wyoming (GWI).

BAVARIAN Railway Authority (BEG) published a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on December 30 for the contract to operate the Nuremberg S-Bahn network for 12 years from December 2017.

DUTCH logistics company Husa Transportation has announced it plans to withdraw its open-access railfreight operations, claiming its financial results are not good enough to justify the continued operation of its own freight trains.

CONSTRUCTION is expected to begin this month of a 220km railway in southern Laos from Savannakhet on the Thai border to Lao Bao on the border with Vietnam following a groundbreaking ceremony on December 18.

THE final four out of a total of 11 electric freight locomotives have been delivered to Uzbekistan Railways (UTY) by a consortium of CNR Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock together with China National Technical Import and Export Corporation (CNTIC).

HUNGARY's Györ-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) has issued a call for tenders for the supply of nine electric locomotives and subsequent maintenance for 20 years with an option for a 10-year extension.

TRAIN services started to return to normal in Korea today following the end of a 22-day strike by railway workers over the government's decision to grant a licence to a new affiliate operator to be set up by Korail to run the new Suseo KTX service.

LONDON Underground (LU) and Bombardier Transportation have announced that a contract for resignalling of the Sub-Surface Line (SSL) network comprising the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines with communications-based train control (CBTC) will be relet.

AN investigation is underway into the cause of a derailment which resulted in two BNSF trains, one of which was carrying crude oil, to collide and explode near Casselton, North Dakota, on December 30.

THE Chinese city of Zhengzhou celebrated the opening of its first metro line on December 26, the 26.3km east-west Line 1 from Xiliuhu to City Sports Centre.