HUNGARY's Györ-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) has issued a call for tenders for the supply of nine electric locomotives and subsequent maintenance for 20 years with an option for a 10-year extension.

TRAIN services started to return to normal in Korea today following the end of a 22-day strike by railway workers over the government's decision to grant a licence to a new affiliate operator to be set up by Korail to run the new Suseo KTX service.

LONDON Underground (LU) and Bombardier Transportation have announced that a contract for resignalling of the Sub-Surface Line (SSL) network comprising the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines with communications-based train control (CBTC) will be relet.

AN investigation is underway into the cause of a derailment which resulted in two BNSF trains, one of which was carrying crude oil, to collide and explode near Casselton, North Dakota, on December 30.

THE Chinese city of Zhengzhou celebrated the opening of its first metro line on December 26, the 26.3km east-west Line 1 from Xiliuhu to City Sports Centre.

THE official opening date for the second tram line in Hungary's second-largest city Debrecen has been set for March 1 following the start of test operation last month.

FOR the first time since Eurostar services linking London, Paris and Brussels started in 1994 annual passenger traffic has reached 10 million journeys.

BEIJING's metro network reached 465km on December 28 with the start of public services on two new sections of Line 8, which links the city centre with the northern suburbs.

CHINA has marked the final days of 2013 by opening a number of high-speed lines in various parts of the country totalling 1501km.

A ground breaking ceremony was held in Shenzhen last week to mark the start of construction of MTR Corporation's first "rail-plus-property" project in mainland China.