BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR), has agreed to spending and performance targets laid down by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for 2014-2019 known as Control Period 5 (CP5).

Operations will begin next month on the enhanced 727km corridor from Jakarta to Surabaya following the completion of a 465.5km track-doubling project.

A variety of transit projects are proposed for the Jakarta metropolitan area and other cities in Indonesia which will aid the fight against traffic congestion while improving cross-city connectivity. Kevin Smith examines the schemes.

The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a $US 468bn infrastructure investment plan intended to facilitate the country's rise to the world's top economic table. However, the suitability of the private investment model touted by the government to deliver these projects remains in question, as Kevin Smith discovered during a visit to Java.

ALL three lines connecting London and Bristol with southwest England have now been severed by flooding and a landslide in addition to the track wash out at Dawlish between Exeter and Newton Abbot.

CONTRACTORS are preparing to start work on a $US 100m project funded by the Colombian government to rehabilitate two 914mm-gauge lines which are currently out of service with a view to starting freight operations by mid-2015.

THE London – Penzance main line has been badly damaged by a severe storm which washed away the track along the coastal section of railway at Dawlish west of Exeter.

HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) received the first Lencse track maintenance vehicle from its MÁV FKG business unit on January 16.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded Robel, Germany, a contract to supply eight 69.7/4 Mobile Maintenance System (MMS) trains, which will be delivered from July 2015 onwards.

PANDROL announced on January 17 that it has acquired the CDM Track business unit of Belgian noise and vibration damping specialist CDM, including its French resin bonded rubber manufacturing unit RBSI.