BASLE Transport Authority celebrated a milestone in its largest-ever procurement of new vehicles on September 4 with the delivery of the first of 60 Flexity low-floor LRVs from Bombardier's Bautzen plant in eastern Germany.
THE first of the V250 Fyra high-speed trains rejected by Netherlands Railways (NS) began its journey from Watergraafsmeer yard in Amsterdam back to the AnsaldoBreda plant in Pistoia, Italy, on September 7.
EQT Infrastructure II, a €1.9bn equity fund, is to take a majority stake in Hector Rail, a private Swedish railfreight company which operates trains in Scandinavia and Germany.
BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has awarded nine suppliers a total of 20 five-year framework enhancement and renewal contracts worth a combined £1.6bn for its London North Western and East Midlands routes.
DB SCHENKER and Zhengzhou International Land Port Development and Construction Company launched a new direct Germany – China freight service on September 1, when the first train was flagged off from the Billwerder terminal in Hamburg by Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch, DB management board officer for logistics and the governor of Hunan province Mr Xie Fuzhan.
FOLLOWING a European tender, Lower Saxony Transport Authority (LNVG) has awarded DB Regio a contract to operate the Lower Saxony Diesel network for 15 years from December.
NORWAY and Sweden have agreed to draw up a joint strategy for the development of rail traffic on the Oslo – Gothenburg corridor following a meeting between representatives of Sweden's Industry Ministry and the Norwegian ministry of transport in Stockholm on August 27.
STAGECOACH has announced an order worth £210m with Siemens and train leasor Angel Trains for a fleet of 30 five-car Desiro City EMUs for its South West Trains suburban commuter services to and from London Waterloo.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) published its first half results on September 1, revealing a 3% rise in daily passenger traffic, which increased to 1.002 million, and 27% year-on-year growth in freight traffic, which reached 7.6 billion net tonne-km.
TRANSDEV is to continue operating Dublin's Luas tram network for another five years under a €150m contract signed on September 2 by Ireland's National Transport Authority (NTA), the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA), and Transdev Dublin Light Rail.