THE president of Saudi Railways Organisation (SRO) HE Mohammed bin Khalid Al-Suwaiket took delivery of four diesel passenger trains supplied by CAF from the Spanish ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mr Joaquin Perez at a ceremony in Dammam on December 7.

ALL three consortia building the six-line metro in the Saudi capital Riyadh have selected Pfaff-Silberblau, Germany, to supply train lifting equipment for installation in each of their new maintenance workshops.

WABTEC has secured a $US 26m order to supply electronically-controlled pneumatic (ECP) braking equipment and components for the 1186 tanks wagons that The Greenbrier Companies is supplying to Saudi Railway Company (SAR).

SAUDI Railway Company (SAR) has placed an order with The Greenbrier Companies, United States, for approximately 1200 tanks wagons to support industrial mining operations led by Ma'aden at Wa'ad Shamal Industrial City in the Sirhan-Turaif region of northern Saudi Arabia.

The North American crude by rail (CBR) market is facing the combined challenges of falling demand due to reductions in oil prices and the introduction of new wagon safety standards. William Vantuono, editor-in-chief of IRJ's North American sister publication Railway Age, and Railway Age contributing editors David Thomas and David Nahass, trace CBR's evolution and consider its future prospects.

REPRESENTATIVES of Riyadh's Fast Consortium, Arriyadh Development Authority, and residents of the district of Salah Al-Din attended a ceremony at the site of the future Salah Al-Din station on October 4 to witness the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) breakthrough on Riyadh metro Line 5 (Green Line).

THE first of six passenger trains being built by CAF was handed over by the company's CEO Mr Andres Arizlorret to the chairman of Saudi Railway Company (SAR) Dr Saad A Al Qadhi and SAR's CEO Dr Rumaih Al-Rumaih at the new station in Riyadh.

RIYADH's King Abdulaziz Public Transport Authority has revealed the first images of the new trains for lines 1 and 2 of the Saudi capital's six-line metro network, which is currently under construction.

METRO Jeddah Company (MJC) has invited expressions of interest for contracts to carry out civil works on the first phase of the city's metro network, together with a turnkey contract to design, build, operate and maintain the planned Corniche light rail line.