NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) is set to go ahead with an order for 60 EMUs from Stadler after Alstom and Bombardier decided not to continue with legal proceedings against NS' decision to award the contract directly to Stadler.
BOTH Alstom and Bombardier have initiated legal proceedings against Netherlands Railways (NS) over the direct award of an order for 60 Flirt EMUs to Stadler.
DUTCH secretary of state for infrastructure Mrs Wilma Mansveld signed 10-year concession agreements on December 15 with Netherlands Railways (NS) for the operation of the so-called core network and with ProRail for the management of the country's mainline rail infrastructure.
NEW train schedules were launched across Europe on December 14, and according to the December issue of the European Rail Timetable, the improvements outnumber the number of services being withdrawn.
DUTCH secretary of state for infrastructure Mrs Wilma Mansveld has announced that the government will grant €200m to South Holland to extend the R-Net network of high-quality public transport services around the Randstad conurbation.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) says it is planning to place an order with Stadler for 60 Flirt EMUs to provide additional capacity in its regional train fleet before the delivery of Civity EMUs from CAF from 2018 onwards.
BRU, the regional public transport authority in the Dutch city of Utrecht has selected preferred bidders for infrastructure and rolling stock contracts for the Uithof Line, an 8km light rail line linking Utrecht Central station with the university campuses at De Uithof in the east of the city.
THALYS, which operates high-speed services between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and Essen, will become an independent company on March 31 2015 for the first time since it was set up as a purely commercial entity in 1996.
WESTPHALIA-Lippe Local Transport (NWL) has selected Keolis for a contract to operate the Teutoburger Wald regional network in northwest Germany from December 2017, which will become effective from December 2017.
THE Dutch province of Overijssel and the Twente region have published a tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union for a contract to operate Zwolle – Kampen and Zwolle – Enschede regional services for 15 years from December 2017.
