A ceremony was held in Rajin, North Korea, on September 22 to mark the reopening of the cross-border line from Hasan, Russia.

THE president of Russian Railways (RZD), Mr Vladimir Yakunin, says he wants to get back into the business of running its freight trains and that splitting up the fleet between the new companies which were spun off from RZD was a mistake.

SINARA Group unveiled a new prototype LNG turbine locomotive at the Expo 1520 exhibition in Shcherbinka, Russia, last week which was developed in partnership with the Russian Railways Research Institute (VNIIZHT).

URAL Locomotives, the Russian joint venture between Siemens and Sinara, unveiled a prototype 1520mm-gauge ac electric locomotive at the Expo 1520 exhibition in Shcherbinka near Moscow on September 12.

SIEMENS and Russian Machines have announced that they intend to submit a joint bid in a tender for new trains for the Moscow metro, which is due to be issued by the end of the year.

UNION Wagon Company (UWC), Russia, has signed an agreement with Amsted Rail, United States, which will see the creation of a new joint venture for designing and manufacturing freight wagon components.

RUSSIAN construction company Transstroy announced on August 15 that it expects to complete construction on the final section of the Amur – Yakutsk Mainline (AYAM) in the Far East of the country by the end of next month.

TRANSMASHHOLDING (TMH) has signed an agreement with Tognum, the parent company of MTU, to establish a joint-venture which will manufacture diesel engines for rail vehicles at a new plant in Kolomna in Moscow Oblast.

IRJ at the 1520 Strategic Partnership: Mr Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways (RZD), has confirmed that the first high-speed line to be built in Russia will connect Moscow with Kazan.

THE president of Russian Railways (RZD), Mr Vladimir Yakunin, has pledged that the Russian rail network will continue to be vertically integrated for at least another two years.