THYSSENKRUPP announced on March 11 that it is abandoning the sale of its railway equipment unit ThyssenKrupp GfT Gleistechnik, opting instead to close down the business, which it describes as "unprofitable".
ŠKODA Kingway Electric, a joint venture of Škoda and Jiangsu Kingway Transportation, China, has secured a contract to supply drives and motors for 40 six-car metro trains being supplied by CSR Nanjing Puzhen to the Chinese city of Suzhou.
IN one of its final major decisions before the country's general elections, which are scheduled for next month, India's cabinet last week approved plans for a Rs 14.6bn ($US 240.7m) coach factory at Kolar in the southern state of Karnataka.
AUSTRALIA's federal government and the state of Queensland have agreed to investigate the possibility of incorporating the residual Queensland Rail (QR) narrow gauge regional rail network into the national network.
QATAR Railways, which is responsible for the construction of Doha's 354km four-line metro, has awarded a €506m contract to a consortium led by FCC, Spain, to build a section of the Red Line.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has become the sixth European railway infrastructure manager to join the European partnership for railway energy settlement (Eress), a non-profit group which has been set up to implement accurate metering and billing of traction energy consumption.
THE BOARD of Ile-de-France transport authority Stif approved draft plans for the €2bn western extension of Paris RER Line E from St Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie on March 5.
BOMBARDIER's F140 AC LM 'Last Mile' electro-diesel locomotive entered service with Swiss railfreight operator BLS Cargo on March 6, when one of the class 187 locomotives was used to haul new multiple units from the Stadler plant at Bussnang to a non-electrified freight terminal in Visp.
THE government of Sri Lanka has selected a Chinese contractor to build the 88km extension of the Colombo – Matara – Beliatta line to Kataragama in the south of country.
SOUTH West Trains (SWT) and Britain's transport minister Mr Stephen Hammond unveiled the first two of its additional class 458/5 five car emus at London's Waterloo station on March 7.
