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.
SOUTH Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, the authority which oversees the Sheffield Super Tram network, has awarded Vossloh Rail Vehicles, Spain, a contract to supply seven tram-trains.
