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10 May 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Global Railway Review
China has agreed to support the Moscow - Kazan High Speed Main Line in a loan equating to 400 billion roubles.
18 December 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, European Railway
China Railway Corp. (CRC) has awarded a contract to supply 80 high speed sleeper train cars to the Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd. (BST) joint venture...
4 June 2015 | By Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways
International experts believe successfully exporting goods and services to be essential to the national competitiveness growth in the foreign markets. Today, many nations employing such strategies come as examples of quality growth and economic development. Russia has an immense resource and production potential and is a major participant in the…
12 February 2014 | By Jay Walder, CEO, MTR Corporation
2014 is shaping up to be another exciting year for MTR. We are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the start of MTR service in Hong Kong, which opened on 1 October 1979 with nine stations along an 8km-long stretch of track in Kowloon. Though the initial operation was small in…
24 February 2011 | By Alstom
Alstom & its two Chinese JVs have been awarded two contracts by Beijing MTR Construction Administration Corp., totaling €140 million...
13 January 2011 | By Madano
Laing O’Rourke, has today announced that in a three-way joint venture with leading Chinese contractors...
17 September 2010 | By Heiko Mannsbarth, Chief Engineer & Product Manager for Mainline & Metro Bogies, Bombardier Transportation and Heiko Mannsbarth, Chief Engineer & Product Manager for Mainline & Metro Bogies, Bombardier Transportation.
In the 1950s and 1960s, specific programmes were initiated to increase service speeds on rail. In Europe and Japan especially, these efforts lead to a considerable increase in the attractiveness for long-distance travellers to choose rail instead of air or road transportation through shortening journey times.
5 April 2010 | By Dr-Ing Stephan Freudenstein, Jia Liu and JuanJuan Ren
The Chinese railway dates back approximately 130 years. The first railway line, Wu-Song, was built in 1876 in Shanghai with a length of 14.5km and a track gauge of 762mm. The first railway built by Chinese engineers is the Jingzhang-Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou), finished between 1905 and 1909 with a…
2 March 2010 | By Nexans
Nexans is to supply the cables for China Railway's high-speed trains that will enter service between Beijing and Shanghai in 2011.
