A MAJOR expansion of Kuala Lumpur's urban rail network is underway as the Malaysian government pursues its master plan to tackle the growth in car journeys and congestion by quadrupling public transport's market share by 2020.
MTR Corporation has awarded CSR a Yuan 1.36bn ($US 215.7m) contract to supply nine high-speed trains for the Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Hong Kong Express Rail Link (ERL).
CSR has been awarded a contract to supply 23 five-car trains for Metro Line 2.
Contracts have been awarded and construction is underway on the United Arab Emirates' inaugural railway line. Kevin Smith looks at the current state of play for the country's planned 1200km network.
CSR Nanjing Puzhen has delivered the first of 12 standard-gauge and eight metre-gauge dmus ordered by Tunisian State Railways (SNCFT) in 2009.
CHINA Southern Rolling Stock (CSR) subsidiary CSR Qingdao Sifang has unveiled a new-high-speed test train which is designed to operate at speeds of up to 500km/h.