TRANSFIMA GEIE, a joint venture of Siemens, France and Tecnimont, Italy, has won a €37.6m contract to equip a 1.6km extension of the Turin light metro.
MANCHESTER Metrolink launched full commercial services on the East Manchester line on February 11 with the opening of the initial 6.3km section between Piccadilly and Droylsden.
THE Russian Railway Research Institute (VNIIZhT) has signed a supplementary agreement with Talgo to define the services it will provide during the project to develop Talgo passenger coaches for use on 1520mm-gauge infrastructure.
BULGARIAN track authority National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRIC) has awarded a consortium of Thales Austria and Kapsch CarrierCom a €35m turnkey contract to install ERTMS on the 133km Sofia – Plovdiv line, which forms part of Trans-European Corridor IV from Dresden and Nuremberg to Istanbul.
LEASING company Alpha Trains has signed a contract worth nearly €250m with Stadler Pankow to supply a fleet of 28 emus for German regional operator WestfalenBahn.
BOMBARDIER began dynamic testing of the Traxx F140 AC LM electro-diesel locomotive at its Henningsdorf facility near Berlin during January.
A CEREMONY was held in Milan on February 5 to mark the inauguration of the initial phase of the city's first driverless metro line.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced plans for a £320m project to lengthen trains on the London Overground network from four to five cars with the aim of accommodating rapidly-increasing ridership.
RHINE-Ruhr Transport Association (VRR), as lead contractor for two other transport authorities, has awarded two 15-year regional concessions in North Rhine Westphalia to a consortium of National Express Rail and IntEgro Transport.
GERMAN intermodal operator Kombiverkehr is launching a total of 32 new services in the first quarter of this year to meet a significant increase in demand.