STRUKTON Rail, Netherlands, has acquired Balfour Beatty's Scandinavian rail subsidiary, including all of its current operations in Sweden and Denmark.
BRITAIN's secretary of state for transport Mr Patrick McLoughlin formally opened the new Trackwork Moll sleeper manufacturing plant in Doncaster on December 9.
EAST Midlands Trains will launch accelerated services between London, central England and South Yorkshire on December 9 following the completion of a £70m project to upgrade sections of the Midland Main Line for 200km/h operation.
THE mayor of Chicago Mr Rahm Emanuel and Illinois governor Mr Pat Quinn announced on December 5 that Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will invest $US 492 in the modernisation of the Blue Line O'Hare Branch, which links the city's main international airport with the city centre.
THE International Union of Railways (UIC) and Britain's Railway Safety & Standards Board (RSSB) signed a memorandum of cooperation at the World Congress on Railway Research (WCRR) in Sydney on November 28 to share railway research knowledge through RSSB's Spark website.
CANADIAN National (CN) announced on November 28 it is launching a $C 10m ($US 9.4m) programme to enhance the early detection of defects in rails and wheelsets.
KENYA's president Uhuru Kenyatta presided over the groundbreaking of a 500km standard-gauge railway linking the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi on November 28.
VOSSLOH Fastening Systems has been awarded a contract worth around €30m to supply rail fasteners for the 450km Haramain high-speed line between Mecca, Jeddah, and Medina, which is currently under construction.
ÖBB Infrastructure has awarded a three-month proof of concept contract to OptaSense, Britain, to trial its Distributed Acoustic Sensing system in the Vienna area.
ISRAEL Railways has completed a $US 186 million project to upgrade and double track the 20km Kiryat-Motzkin - Nahariya line, thereby creating a continuous double-track line for the first time from Beer-Sheva in the south via Tel Aviv and Haifa to Nahariya in the north.
