Portal talk:Trains/Trains news/Archive 1

From 2009
Slambo (Speak) 14:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Kazakhstan delays construction of its railway section to Iran: MP (Trend Capital, January 9)
 * Leuenberger picks up railway award (SwissInfo, January 20)
 * Threat from Shiraz-Isfahan railway shifts to Rahmatabad Tepe (Tehran Times, January 21)
 * Shenhua Group to build cargo railway to Mongolia (China Business News, January 22)

Slambo (Speak) 12:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Melbourne railway buckles under heat (ABC, January 29) and Heat wave, industrial action cripples Melbourne railways (Wikinews, January 29)
 * Metro-North hits highs with riders in survey (LoHud.com, January 27)
 * French railway workers kick off general strike - Summary (Earth Times, January 28), France’s Trains, Airport Services Disrupted in General Strike (Bloomberg, January 29), France: Strike disruption less than expected (CNN, January 29) and French strike causes delays, cuts public services (AP, January 29). Also Widespread strike action may hit France (Wikinews, January 27)
 * Watco CEO testifies in Washington (Morning Sun, January 28)
 * Thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to railway station and stonework in Bath (Wikinews, January 25)

Slambo (Speak) 11:46, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Himachal's Kangra Valley Railway recommended for UNESCO list (Sify News, February 1)
 * Saudi Binladin wins $533 mln railway contract -magazine (Reuters India, January 31) and Bin Laden wins Saudi railway contract (PressTV, February 1)
 * Intense lobbying on for next railway board chairman (The Hindu, January 31)
 * Former Macomb mayor named Amtrak chairman (Chicago Tribune, January 31)
 * Farm groups forge historic agreement with BNSF Railway Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) and Montana Grain Growers Association (Prairie Star, January 29)
 * Heritage status: Matheran rly joins race (Express India, February 1)
 * Work starts to clear railway (Advertiser, February 1)
 * Winners and losers on UK's East Coast rail line (Wikinews, January 30)
 * Strike threat at UK's Northern Rail (Wikinews, January 29)

Slambo (Speak) 12:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Former Chretien chief of staff Jean Pelletier dies (CTV, January 10)

Slambo (Speak) 14:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreement in place for future Kiruna railway bypass (Steel Guru, February 23)
 * Japan railway to hire 1,030 school leavers in March 2010 (Trading Markets, February 22)

Red links
Please ensure that the news section contains no red links, as is required by featured portal standards.--cj | talk 14:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks :).--cj | talk 22:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yah, I'll try to be more careful about that. I've been working through a rather large backlog of importance ratings, and not updating the news section as much as I would like. Slambo (Speak)  12:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Grayrigg derailment
Not sure how best to edit the news to add the article Grayrigg derailment or the wikinews story [|Virgin Train crashes in England] 160.5.247.8 22:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Korean cross border tests
Tests are scheduled to begin on cross-border rail traffic Thursday, May 17, 2007. Links: , Possible image: Image:MapofKorea.png Slambo (Speak) 20:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Southern Cross Station

 * June 24 – The new Southern Cross Station in Melbourne, Australia has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding new building located outside of the European Union, beating 500 other entries including New York City's Hearst Tower and the Des Moines public library. The AUD$700 million station is a "powerful conflation of old and new, people and trains, structure and light", according to the institute. (The Age)