Asia rail industry news
Latest railway industry news from across Asia, including operations, infrastructure, rolling stock and policy.
Japanese diesel railcar ready for dynamic testing
JAPAN: This month JR West is to begin dynamic testing of its prototype Kawasaki Heavy Industries DEC700 diesel railcar, which is designed for future conversion to battery-diesel hybrid operation.
TMH hands over EMUs destined for Armenia
ARMENIA: Transmashholding’s Demikhovo plant has handed over a pair of two-car EP2D DC electric multiple-units ordered for use on the Yerevan – Gyumri route.
Bozankaya lowest bidder for Izmir tram contract
TURKEY: Bozankaya submitted the lowest bid of TL749·75m for a contract to supply 26 trams to İzmir Metro for use on the Konak and Karşıyaka lines and the future Çiğli line which is currently under construction
EBRD approves Izmir metro loan
TURKEY: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is to provide Izmir municipality with a €125m loan to support construction of the first phase of the Üçyol – Buca driverless metro line.
Kazakh-built passenger locomotive commissioned
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ has commissioned the first Alstom Prima M4 KZ4AT electric passenger locomotive to be assembled locally rather than imported from France.
CRRC rolls out completed 600 km/h maglev trainset
CHINA: The first complete five-car maglev trainset designed for 600 km/h operation was formally rolled out by CRRC Qingdao Sifang on July 20.
12 confirmed dead in Zhengzhou metro flood
Thai and Japanese railway research organisations to co-operate
Red snow crabs by high speed train
Governments mull funding of Tokyo metro extensions
Chinese freight arrives in Hairatan
Cross-acceptance accord to boost Nepalese rail freight
Shaoxing opens first line of planned 208 km metro network
Fukuoka Subway orders sky and mountain liveried trainsets
Xuzhou opens north-south metro line
Automated metro opens in Suzhou
Baku metro trains delivered
Changzhou’s second metro line inaugurated
Hangzhou Line 8 includes 2·8 km under-river tunnel
Rolling stock HVAC testing flaws come to light
Line 2 East metro extension opens in Manila
Lhasa – Nyingchi line inaugurated
Supercapacitor tramway opens in Jiaxing
CAF Signalling awarded Istanbul – Bulgaria contract