THE BOARD of Ile-de-France transport authority Stif has voted to fund the acquisition of 91 new Bombardier trains for the Paris area Transilien suburban network as part of its €787m…
ALLIANCE Rail Holdings has announced plans to invest up to £300m to introduce an hourly-interval open-access service - operated by its Great North Eastern Railway subsidiary - between London King's…
LYON transport authority Sytral celebrated the completion of the second metro tunnel under the river Rhône on December 11 with the inauguration of the southern extension of Line B from…
ITALIAN Rail Network (RFI) has awarded a consortium consisting of Alstom, Gemmo., M Pavani Segnalamento Ferroviario, Ricci and Politecnica a €120m contract to upgrade signalling and telecommunications networks on 200km…
THE prospect of Chinese money being used to upgrade the Belgrade – Budapest line was raised again at the recent at the CEE-China summit in Bucharest, where Hungarian prime minister…
DUTCH infrastructure manager ProRail has begun trialling a new station lighting system which automatically dims platform lights by up to 40% during quiet periods to reduce energy consumption.
GERMAN transport minister Dr Peter Ramsauer announced on December 9 that the German federal government will provide a €19m grant towards the extension of the Strasbourg light rail network across…
FIRST Great Western (FGW) has awarded Nomad Digital a contract to install passenger WiFi on its fleet of 53 HST sets, which are used on long-distance services from London to…
MOBILIDADE Anhanguera, a consortium of Odebrecht Transport (90%) and Brazilian bus operators (10%), has been selected as preferred bidder for the 35-year PPP concession to build and operate the first…
