RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has received two 2ES5 dual-unit electric freight locomotives from Transmashholding subsidiary Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, the first part of an order for 200 locomotives that will be delivered up to 2020.

RAIL services between Thailand and Cambodia could finally be restored in 2013 after the governments of the two countries reached a new agreement to rebuild the missing 48km section between Poipet and Sisophon.