Actually, they said that it was probably do out this month in the news letter. Also, from what I have heard, some people already have it because they were part of some beta testing forum from back when 09 came out.
Although not the "multiplayer" most are waiting for. There is Iportaling where people can send trains back and forth. And January isnt quite over yet, but from what I have read the delay in Multiplayer has been the flooding in Brisbane.
Well, "down-under" it's 6 minutes to midnight on the 31st Jan and it came today, so as I said in an earlier post, it could be "tomorrow" (that's your tomorrow), or could be a week, month or a year !!!! Great to see N3V are on the ball and got it out to the community for beta testing so "soon" (TM).