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Bombardier has won a contract to build 66 new metro trains for Singapore's North-South and East-West Lines (NSEWL) in a deal worth more than $800 million.

Developers are submitting plans for a new high-speed line to the UK's Department for Transport (DfT) in response to a call for market-led proposals.

This commitment matches a pledge from prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for A$5 billion to the airport rail link, meaning that construction could begin in 2022. 

Services on the high-speed line were originally scheduled to begin in December 2026.

In a statement released online, Bane NOR said it has "never... been allocated so much money to build railways in Norway".

Britain's rail regulator, the Office of Rail and Road, has welcomed the opening of an investigation by the European Commission into the planned merger of Siemens and Alstom.

It is the latest milestone in the multinational mining corporation's A$940 million AutoHaul project to establish the world's first heavy haul, long-distance autonomous rail operation.

The ambitious project is planned ahead of Paris hosting the Summer Olympics, when the station will be able to accommodate an extra 100,000 passengers per day.

The update comes after HS2 updated the shortlist of firms to build at least 54 conventional compatible trains for Britain’s new high-speed line.

Around 86 million Swiss francs is being invested in the new plant, which will see its capability for manufacturing KISS double-deck trains moved from the current site in Altenrhein when work is completed in 2020.