NEW ZEALAND'S national railway KiwiRail has announced the daily Capital Connection commuter service linking Wellington and Palmerston North will continue operating until 2015.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a contract worth around Rs 2.5bn ($US 47m) to supply its Cityflo 350 integrated train control and signalling system for two metro extensions in the Indian capital.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced the shortlist of prequalified bidders for the contract to operate the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from September 14 2014.
CALIFORNIA High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has revealed details of the five bids submitted in January for the contract to design and build the first section of the state's high-speed network.
RAIL access to Munich Franz-Jozef Strauss International Airport is set to improve significantly after German Rail (DB) and the state of Bavaria reached an agreement to build a new connection between the airport and the Munich – Regensburg line.
SALT Lake City inaugurated the latest phase of its Trax light rail network on April 13, when a free preview service gave residents their first chance to travel on the 9.7km line to Salt Lake International Airport.
US national passenger rail operator Amtrak says ridership on its services continued to increase steadily in the first half of the 2013 financial year (October 2012 – March 2013), despite the disruption to the network in the northeast caused by Hurricane Sandy last October.
THE Queensland state government is to introduce legislation to change Queensland Rail (QR) from a government-owned corporation to a statutory authority, which minister for transport Mr Scott Emerson says will lift the performance of the railway network and bring costs under control.
VR Group, Finland, has unveiled the first refurbished Sm4 emu, which features a redesigned interior and new exterior livery.
AN express metro is to be constructed from Beijing South station to the Chinese capital's new airport which will be built in the southern district of Daxing. The line is expected to be 37km long and with a journey time of around 30 minutes.
