Japan: Kinki Sharyo has built the DEC743-series diesel-battery machines. JR West has ordered nine of them, along with 12 hopper-dosing wagons to run with them.
Japan: The operators have announced their plans to withdraw two Doctor Yellow inspection trains produced more than 20 years ago.
Japan: As the tests of the E956 series train are completed, Takeshi Matsunuma, Editor-in-Chief of Toyo Keizai, reviewed the high-speed train prototypes that have been produced since the early 1990s.