TRANSPORT for London (TfL) says it will award a £260m contract to Bombardier for 45 EMUs for the expanding London Overground rail network. Delivery of the trains will start in 2018.
INFORMATION has been released through the Official Journal of the European Union concerning a tender for the operation of nine Hannover S-Bahn services.
THAILAND's cabinet has approved a proposal from State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to borrow Yen 38.2bn ($US 308.8m) from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to finance the second phase of the metre-gauge Red Line from Bang Sue to Rangsit.
PLANS for a second east-west S-Bahn tunnel beneath Munich city centre received a significant boost on June 9, when Germany's Federal Railway Authority (EBA) approved a construction permit for the western section of the route under Munich Main Station.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) and Ile-de-France transport authority Stif have awarded Alstom a contract worth around €20m to supply and install automatic train operation (ATO) on Paris RER Line A as part of a project to increase capacity on one of the city's busiest rail arteries.
IRJ at UITP 2015, Milan: Thales unveiled its new TransCity modular fare collection system at the UTP exhibition which it says is the first in the world to be cloud-ready.
The construction of a circular light rail line in Kaohsiung will bring more residents and businesses in Taiwan's second city within easy reach of the rail network, as James Chuang explains.
Think of urban rail investment in Paris and the ambitious Grand Paris express metro project probably springs to mind. However, a rolling programme of light rail construction is continually extending the tram network into more areas of the city. Keith Barrow outlines the next phase of development.
THE city of Berlin and the state government of Brandenburg announced on June 3 that they will directly award two of three contracts for the operation of the Berlin S-Bahn network to German Rail (DB).Contracts for the operation of the network were split into three following unsuccessful attempts to tender these services.
THE final section of 42km of bored tunnels for London's Crossrail project has been completed allowing fitting out to commence. The £14.8bn project is now 65% complete, within budget, and on target to open in 2018.