Dan Templeton

VOSSLOH announced on December 5 that it has signed an agreement to acquire North American rail infrastructure company Rocla Concrete Tie for $US 117.2m at the beginning of 2017 subject to merger control clearances.

THE first three Traxx AC3 electric locomotives for German open-access rail freight operator RheinCargo was handed over at Bombardier’s Kassel plant on November 25.

TRANSPORT for London (TfL) announced on November 24 it has received the last of 192 new Bombardier S-Stock trains, which were procured as part of the modernisation of the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines on the London Underground (LU).

GLASGOW City Council announced on November 24 that it has set out proposals to build a direct tram-train link between Glasgow Airport, Paisley, and Glasgow city centre.

BOMBARDIER announced on November 22 that it has been awarded an eight-year contract by Montreal’s Metropolitan Transport Agency (AMT) for to operate its six-line commuter rail network and maintain its fleet of locomotives and rolling stock. 

HUBER and Suhner announced on November 21 that it is extending its portfolio of roof-top antennas with the new five-port Sencity Rail multiple input, multiple output (Mimo) antenna.

GERMAN Rail (DB) has developed a concept to provide all passengers on DB Regio services with internet access via a wireless local area network (WLAN), as a solution to the lack of network coverage provided by mobile operators.

ABB announced on November 15 that it has won an order from Alstom to supply 1600 traction transformers for 800 double-unit prima electric new freight locomotives for India.

GERMAN long-distance open-access operator Hamburg Köln Express (HKX) is set to only offer services between Cologne and Hamburg on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the timetable change on December 11 after cancelling its Monday connection.

DB Network is planning to extend its remote point condition monitoring programme, connecting more than 12,500 point machines to the Diana monitoring and analysis platform, for which Strukton will deliver another 800 data loggers.