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    China poised to open 350 km/h automated railway

     Asian Rail News
    Automated operations are due to start before the end of this year on the 174 km high speed line linking Beijing with Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, one of the host cities for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

    Greenwich to get a full house of Queens

     Letters to the Editor
    For the first time ever, three famous paintings of Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portraits, are going on display together in the same place, at Queen’s House in Greenwich.

    Wet and Windy, or how we miss the East Lincs Main Line

     UK
    People in Louth, Lincolnshire, say that in the 1960s they could travel by train to London in about the same time as it now takes them to drive to their nearest main line station.

    JR West Railway selects E Ink for smart signage trial

     Asian Rail News
    JR West Railway Company has selected electronic ink technology firm E Ink as the display medium for a smart signage trial at Japan’s Osaka station.

    Northern place one third of new Class 195 and Class 331 fleet into service

     UK
    Northern have placed one third – 33 of 101 trains – of their new Class 195 and Class 331 fleet into operation in a number of towns and cities across its service – including Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire.

    [RS / Expert] The second batch of Vectrons for Srbija Kargo [updatedx3]

     Europe
    That goes quite fast. On 24.05.2018 Srbija Kargo and Siemens signed a EUR 32 million contract for the delivery of eight Vectron locomotives.

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