INDIA: A major increase in Indian Railways’ capital expenditure to Rs1 485bn in the 2018-19 financial year was announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as part of the national budget unveiled on February 1. This is almost three times the Rs540m allocated for capital works in 2013-14. Jaitley said improvements in safety would be a top

Russian company Repetek has become the full owner of ZMK-Trans with the purchase of the 50% stake held by an outside shareholder. ZMK-Trans has around 300 flat wagons used for timber and general purpose transport, which will now supplement GK Maximum‘s fleet of more than 10 000 wagons. Malcolm Logistics has awarded DB Cargo UK a £21m three-year extension until August

Network Rail has awarded Siemens Rail Automation a contract to supply, install and support European Train Control System (ETCS) in-cab signalling on the fleet of 745 freight locomotives across Great Britain. This is the first of a series of contracts which will see ETCS – a key component of Network Rail’s Digital Railway programme – installed

KAZAKHSTAN: Contracts for the supply of 300 shunting locomotives and the provision of 18 years of support for 175 TEP33A passenger locomotives were signed by national railway KTZ and GE Transportation during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to the USA on January 17. The two contracts are worth more than US$900m in total. Final assembly

Constructions y Auxiliary de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has released the first images of its new train production plant in South Wales. The Spanish rolling stock manufacturer revealed in July, 2017, it would construct a £30 million factory to build trams, suburban, inter-city and high-speed trains in the UK as it targets contracts with Transport for London, HS2 as