Headlines
UK
First five days sees 1.5 million travellers at Central.(heraldscotland)
Lorry carrying crane hits railway bridge in Edinburgh.(BBC News)
£600k cycle hub opens at Leicester railway station.(BBC News)
Appeal over mass brawl on board train at Blantyre.(BBC News)
Direct from London to the Mediterranean! Eurostar launches six-hour train service to Marseille (but it will take an hour longer to get home, due to immigration) (Mail Online)
International
Africa
Railways Africa
MOLOTO CORRIDOR “RAPID RAIL”
APPLE EXPRESS & BAYWEST MALL
METRORAIL COACH REFURBISHING
PRASA DOUBLES ALSTOM’S ORDER BOOK
PRASA’S VISION
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Australia
Australia approves $15.5bn coal and rail project.(BBC News)
Rally to protest Hunter rail line closure.(Cessnock Advertiser)
India
Construction of world's tallest railway bridge begins in Manipur.(Economic Times)
Northeast Frontier Railway (NRF) has started construction of a bridge with the height of the pillars up to 141 metres, near Noney in Manipur, surpassing the existing tallest - the Mala-Rijeka viaduct on the Belgrade-Bar railway line in Europe where the height of the pillars is 139 metres.
The bridge under construction on the river Chenab in Jammu-Kashmir line is of the arch type, bridging a gorge 360 metres deep from the bed of the river to the rail level......
Russia
Train Nearly Hits 2 Women Indiana, Two Women Survived Being Run Over by Train | VIDEO (msViralNewsTV)..on YouTube.
INRD near-fatalities underscore trespassing problem. (Railway Age)
Editorial from "Railway Age" commenting on the above event, and the possible consequences arising from such an incident in such a location. "See Tracks?Think Train!" is the message of a major public awareness campaign to help reduce the rising number of unnecessary deaths on the railway.
For more information on trespassing laws, and railroad safety and awareness, visit Operation Lifesaver’s website at www.oli.org.
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