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.
TRENITALIA and Alstom hosted an event at Alstom's Savigliano plant in northern Italy on June 25 to give the press, passenger associations, and representatives of the government of Piedmont a first glimpse of the new Coradia Meridian regional emu for Trenitalia.
SAUDI Railways Organisation (SRO) and Indra, Spain, have chosen Kapsch CarrierCom to install GSM-R on the 450km Haramain high-speed line under construction between Mecca, Jeddah, and Medina.
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.
RIFT Valley Railways (RVR) says it expects to begin test operation on its northern Uganda branch from Tororo near the Kenyan border to Pakwach on the northern shore of Lake Albert by the end of July, 18 years after services were suspended.
TAIWAN High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) has awarded a consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Toshiba the contract for trackwork and electrical & mechanical (E&M) works on the 9.2km extension of the Kaohsiung – Taipei high-speed line from Taipei Railway Station to Nangang.
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.
THE Romanian government has announced that it has chosen Romanian open-access operator Grup Feroviar Român (GFR) as the preferred bidder for a 51% stake in national railfreight operator CFR Marfă.