PASSENGER services have begun using the new £47m Hitchin flyover, which will carry London – Cambridge services across the busy East Coast Main Line (ECML) and eliminate conflicting movements through the flat junction, which had become a major bottleneck.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced the shortlist of bidders for the concession to operate the 118km Crossrail east-west link across London, which is due to open in 2018.
RHINE-Main Transport Association (RMV) has published a tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union for a contract to operate part of the Main-Neckar-Reid network in southern Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.
CZECH open-access long-distance passenger operator Leo Express announced on June 24 that it has carried more than 400,000 passengers in the six months since the launch of its full timetable on January 18.
THE second phase of the light rail network in the Norwegian city of Bergen was inaugurated on June 21, when Hordaland county mayor Mr Tom-Christer Nilsen and Bergen mayor Mrs Trude Drevlan officially opened the 3.6km extension from Nesttun to Lagunen station in the district of Rådal.
PUBLIC Transport Victoria (PTV) has awarded Alstom a contract worth around $A 121.5m ($US 111.8m) to supply eight additional six-car X'Trapolis emus for the Melbourne suburban network.
ARRIVA has been selected by the municipal government of The Hague to operate a direct open-access service between the Dutch city and Brussels from December 2015.
KING Mohammed VI of Morocco formally launched the modernisation of the 354km Fez – Oujda line on June 19 during a royal visit to the city of Oujda in the northeast of the country.
THE European Commission (EC) has issued a formal request to the French and British governments to enforce European regulations on track access charging for freight and passenger trains in the Channel Tunnel, which have been branded "excessive" by transport commissioner Mr Siim Kallas.
SOUTH Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, the authority which oversees the Sheffield Super Tram network, has awarded Vossloh Rail Vehicles, Spain, a contract to supply seven tram-trains.