BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) successfully completed £100m of infrastructure upgrade work comprising 200 projects over the Christmas period, with a team of 24,000 accumulating 600,000 hours of work over the 10 days.
TRANSPORT for London (TFL) announced on December 30 that the new Bombardier Aventra EMU for Crossrail undergone all-weather testing at Rail Tec Arsenal’s climatic wind tunnel in Vienna.
CONSTRUCTION of the China - Laos railway officially got underway on January 1 following a ceremony held in the northern Lao city of Luang Prabang and attended by the prime minister of Laos, Mr Thongloun Sisoulith.
THE government of the Philippines has reopened bidding to Japanese companies for the supply of 120 new LRVs for the Light Rail Transit Line 1 in Manila after it abandoned a previous tender in March 2016.
CASA Transport has selected subsidiaries Engie Ineo and Engie Cofely Maroc to equip the new T2 tram line and the extension of the T1 line in Casablanca, Morocco.
BAYERN LB and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) announced on December 14 that they will finance 28 trains that will be operated by Transdev subsidiary Bavaria Regional Rail (BRB) from December 2018 on the Munich/Augsburg - Füssen and Augsburg - Landsberg network.
EVRAZ announced on December 20 that it has set up production of European 60 E1 100m-long raw or head-hardened rails.
MTR, Hong Kong, and China Railway Corporation (CRC) announced on December 16 that they have signed a letter of intent to explore potential areas of strategic cooperation within the mainland of China and internationally.
SLOVAKIA’s national train operator ZSSK has scrapped a tender for the purchase of 25 EMUs amounting to €160m.
BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) says that it is planning measures to improve ticketing information for passengers and make it easier for people to choose the best value fare for their journey.
