BELGIUM's state audit office has suspended its investigation into the V250 high-speed train case because it says parties key to the inquiry, including Belgian National Railways (SNCB) and Netherlands Railways (NS), are unwilling to disclose crucial information.
ARRIVA's Czech rail subsidiary Arriva Vlaky withdrew its open-access suburban service between Prague Masarykovo and Kralupy nad Vltavou on December 13, just three months after the start of operations.
LATVIAN Railways (LDZ) president Mr Ugis Magonis and the CEO of Lithuanian Railways (LG) Mr Stasis Dailidka signed a series of agreements in the Latvian capital Riga last month aimed at improving and expanding cross-border operations between the two countries.
ALSTOM and its Chinese joint venture Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment (Satee) have been awarded two contracts worth a total of €75m to supply traction systems for more than 550 metro cars for the cities of Chengdu and Xi'an.
SHANGHAI added two more lines to its metro network on December 29, taking the system to more than 500km just 20 years after the opening of the first line.
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).
