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Eurostar will begin a redesign and overhaul of its existing fleet next year and purchase 10 new train sets from Siemens AG able to reach speeds of 320 kilometers an hour (198 mph), adding 900 seats, it said today in an e-mailed statement.
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Eurostar to Buy Siemens Trains in Bid to Counter Deutsche Bahn
Siemens AG, the German maker of the ICE high-speed train, is poised to clinch a 2.2 billion-euro ($2.8 billion) order from Russia for 240 regional trains , as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin works to upgrade infrastucture.
More here: Siemens, OAO Russian Railways to Sign $2.8 Billion Regional Trains Deal
PERTH: Australian coal miners made a joint A$4.85 billion (A$1 = RM2.76) cash bid for a rail-track network in the country's biggest coal state, aiming to prevent it being sold onto the stock market in a wider privatisation. The group of 13 firms headed by BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata said its bid for the network was conditional on the Queensland state government dropping its plan to sell ...
Continue here: Miners make A$4.9b bid for rail network
DIVERSIFIED group YTL Corp Bhd ( 4677 ) said it still believes the high-speed bullet train linking Kuala Lumpur to neighbouring Singapore is an economically viable project and hopes the government will reconsider its implementation.
Continue here: YTL: KL-S'pore bullet train project economically viable (Business Times (Malaysia))