The latest rail news as it happens!
(November 2006)
Australia
Australia
AMEC advanced 11½p to 394½p on revived talk of an agreed £1.5bn or 446p-a-share cash offer from Australian mining engineer Downer EDI
Toll, PN, Patrick Corp Article -
Downer EDI Ltd secured $200 million in contracts with long-standing clients Xstrata Coal and ARTC
Results of Victorian Rail Gauge Standardisation
Leighton First-Quarter Profit Gains 34% on Record Contracts
Leighton Holdings Ltd keeping its small stake in rival Downer EDI Ltd under review
New Zealand
Toll’s threat to cut trains
Port of Tauranga in merger talks
Onehunga Line Reopening
Henderson Double Tracking
Roads
Hochtief's (Leighton) awarded contract to design and construct (euro 118 million) six-lane motorway in Queensland
Overseas
Five new mass transit lines approved in Bangkok
Romanian Railways CFR will close down more than two thirds of the railways
Bombardier’s Spanish and Swiss Train Orders
Germany's ruling coalition has agreed to partly privatize the country's federal rail system by 2009
Malaysian builders MMC Corp and Gamuda propose to spend $2.5 billion to build a 330 km, double-tracked line that would link ports on Malaysia's west coast to Thailand
Other
Ararat Signal Box to be preserved
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