THE Danish government has announced plans to use North Sea oil revenues to finance a €3.7bn investment in the country's railway infrastructure over the next decade, which will reduce journey times between Denmark's five largest cities.
NEW South Wales transport minister Ms Gladys Berejiklian announced last week that three groups made up of 33 companies have been shortlisted for the surface and viaduct civil contract of Sydney's North West Rail Link project.
REPRESENTATIVES from the United States' leading freight railways told the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) during a conference in Washington, DC, this week that a full implementation of Positive Train Control on around 96,500km of track will not be possible by the federally-mandated deadline of 2015.
KAZAKHSTAN Railways (KTZ) has selected KazElectroPrivod (KEP), a joint venture of Alstom and Kamkor, Kazakhstan, in a €90m contract to supply 10,000 point machines over a period of 10 years. Delivery will commence this year.
THE European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the First Railway Package does not require member states to have an institutional separation between an infrastructure manager and the incumbent railway operator.
THE British public will fund 100%, or around £1bn, of the procurement costs of the rolling stock for Crossrail, London's new 118km east-west cross-city line which is currently under construction.
CHINA's Ministry of Railways (MOR) and the country's transport ministry are set to be merged, under plans reportedly agreed this week by the country's new leadership.
THE Hungarian government has given the go-ahead for a long-discussed project to build a 113km freight line between Tatabánya and Cegléd, by-passing Budapest. This would be the biggest new railway construction in the country since 1912.
DEVELOPING rail as a transport mode to protect the social, economic, and environmental fabric of European society is at the heart of Challenge 2050, a collaborative document issued by the industry's leading representatives bodies and associations on February 26.
THE Gautrain was billed as one of the most reliable modes of public transport in South Africa's Gauteng province when it began operating services in June 2010. However, the service is falling well short of its projected daily ridership figures of 100,000 passenger journeys per day.
