AN outline business case for a tram-train between Glasgow and Glasgow Airport is due to be presented for approval in December.
TEST running started on July 24 on the 60km Valley Line linking Haifa Lev Hamifratz with Beit Shee'an while Israel’s transport minister Mr Israel Katz has announced plans for two more new lines.
CHINA Export-Import (Exim) Bank has agreed to provide Tanzania with a $US 7.6bn loan to build around 2200km of new standard-gauge railway linking Dar es Salaam with cities in central and western Tanzania.
THE British House of Commons Select Committee on the High-Speed 2 (HS2) Hybrid Bill has published its final report. The bill will now go forward for further consideration in the House of Parliament and then the House of Lords.
A feasibility study into the construction of a €1bn route between Dobbiaco and Calalzo in Italy's Belluno province will take place following an agreement signed on February 13.
ITALIAN civil engineering company, Condotte, has appointed Pöyry, Finland, to carry out rock and tunnel engineering for construction of a section of the Follo Line in Norway.
CHINA's Exim Bank has agreed to provide $US 1.5bn to fund 85% of the cost of extending the 609km Mombasa – Nairobi standard-gauge line currently under construction 120km north to Naivasha, while the Kenya government will fund the remaining 15%.
THE Thai cabinet gave its seal of approval on November 17 to signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China on December 19 for a Baht 400bn ($US 11bn) project to build an 873km railway across Thailand.
THE first tunnel boring machine on Sydney's North West Rail Link has broken through into the future Norwest station and the project is already ahead of schedule and under budget.
