TRANSPORT for London has (TfL) placed a £88m order with Bombardier for 57 additional Class 378 emu vehicles as part of a £320m project to lengthen trains on the London Overground network from four to five cars.

GERMAN Rail (DB) announced on May 2 that it has agreed a framework contract with Bombardier for up to 450 Traxx electric locomotives over the next 10 years, which could be worth up €1.5bn if all options are exercised.

AROUND 1000 guests attended a ceremony in the Korean city of Yongin today to mark the inauguration of the Yongin EverLine, an automated light metro linking Giheung station on Korail's Bundang Line with Everland, the country's largest theme park.

CSR Nanjing Puzhen has secured an order from the city of Nanjing for 15 low-floor LRVs, which are based on Bombardier's Flexity 2 technology and will serve two new light rail lines in the city, the 8km line in Hexi New City in southwest of the city, and the 9km line in Qilin Science and Technology Park in the east.

DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a contract worth around Rs 2.5bn ($US 47m) to supply its Cityflo 350 integrated train control and signalling system for two metro extensions in the Indian capital.

RUSSIAN car builder Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) and its partner Bombardier have today unveiled at the Hannover Fair models of a new metro train and a new LRV which they are developing jointly for Russia.

SIEMENS has awarded Bombardier a €336m contract to supply bodyshells and bogies for a batch of 170 ICx high-speed coaches ordered by German Rail (DB) under a framework agreement with Siemens.

GERMAN Rail (DB) has placed a €113m order with Bombardier for 12 Twindexx Vario double-deck emus, which will be used by DB Regio on Main-Spessart Regional Express services from Frankfurt to Würzburg and Bamberg from 2015.

SINGAPORE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has signed a $S 119m ($US 96m) contract for a second batch of 45 Movia C951 metro cars from Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles (CBRC), China.

PASSENGER Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has awarded a Bombardier-led consortium a Rand 1.1bn ($US 122m) contract to carry out resignalling of MetroRail KwaZulu Natal commuter lines in the Durban area.