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The latest global news about railway infrastructure, construction and maintenance projects, contracts and technology.
AFRICA: Siemens Rail Automation says that it expects to commission the Positive Train Control signalling system it has installed on the Nacala Corridor linking Malawi and Mozambique ‘by the end of the year’.The ... more
BANGLADESH: The Asian Development Bank approved its largest ever railway investment and its biggest investment in Bangladesh on September 28, a US$1·5bn loan package to finance the construction of a 102 km line which will ... more
FRANCE: Preliminary work including vegetation clearance is due to start this autumn for T13 Express, which will see tram-train services introduced between Saint-Cyr-L’Ecole and Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the western suburbs of ... more
QATAR: Qatar Rail celebrated the completion of tunnelling for the Doha metro on September 25, when tunnel boring machine Msheireb broke through at the site of the future Hamad International Airport station. In total, ... more
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railway Co has awarded Thales a renewable one-year contract for predictive and corrective maintenance of onboard and lineside ETCS Level 2 equipment on the 2 400 km North–South Railway ... more
EUROPE: Infrastructure managers SNCF Réseau and ADIF are to take over the operation of the high speed line between Perpignan in France and Figueres in Spain, after creditors were unable to agree terms for restructuring the €557m ... more
Argentina: Marubeni has signed a US$63m contract to supply Automatic Train Stop technology for the US$250m Buenos Aires ATS project which covers 280 trainsets and 1500 track-km. Australia: A ... more
DENMARK: Alstom announced on September 23 that, in conjunction with infrastructure authority Banedanmark, it had carried out the first successful tests of ETCS Level 2 Baseline 3, validated by the European Union Agency for ... more
UK: Network Rail announced on September 21 that tracklaying had been completed to enable Chiltern Railways services to run to Oxford. Chiltern had begun operating between London Marylebone and a parkway station on the northern ... more
CHINA: MTR Corp is now carrying out operational trials and system testing ahead of the opening on October 23 of the 2⋅6 km extension of the Kwun Tong Line to Ho Man Tin and Whampoa in Kowloon. Whampoa will replace Yau Ma Tei as ... more