BRITAIN’s National Audit Office (NAO) has published findings of an investigation into the Sheffield to Rotherham tram-train scheme, and has discovered Network Rail’s (NR) original cost has quadrupled, the cost:benefit ratio has plummeted and it will take longer to implement.
MTR Corporation, Hong Kong, has awarded Mechan, Britain, two contracts to supply lifting jacks, bogie turntables and a bespoke bogie drop.
THE first of seven CityLink LRVs for Sheffield's tram-train pilot project has left Vossloh Rail Vehicles' plant at Albuixech near Valencia in Spain on the first leg of its journey to Britain.