IRJ at Nordic Rail: SWEDISH infrastructure manager Trafikverket says plans to build the country's first high-speed line between Stockholm and Gothenburg are taking shape, with development now well underway on the Stockholm - Linköping and Borås - Gothenburg sections.
DR Choi YeonHye has been appointed as president and CEO of Korail, Korea's national train operator, and is the first woman to lead the company.
TRANSPORT for Greater Manchester (TfGM) opened a 3.4km extension to the East Manchester Line of its Metrolink light rail network early. Services started running to Ashton-under-Lyne on October 9.
TORONTO City Council has voted by a majority of four to endorse reconstructing the Scarborough light metro line as an extension of the city's heavy metro, giving a political victory to Toronto's mayor Mr Rob Ford.
ISRAEL Railways has placed a Shekels 1.5bn ($US 421.7m) contract with Alstom to maintain its fleet of IC3 dmus for seven years, with an option for an eight-year extension.
POLISH State Railways' (PKP) freight business PKP Cargo is to be part-privatised through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Warsaw stock exchange.
IRJ at Nordic Rail: Testing is set to commence in November on Norwegian infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket's pilot ERTMS project.
KANSAS City has awarded a $US 22m contract to the US subsidiary of CAF, Spain, for four LRVs for operation on its initial 3.5km downtown streetcar line linking North Market with Union Station.
WIENER Linien, which operates urban rail services in the Austrian capital, inaugurated a 4.2km extension to Line U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn on October 5.
THE $US 5.6bn project to extend the Israeli rail network south to the port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba has received a boost following its approval by the Ministerial Committee for Internal Affairs and Services.
