David Burroughs

A 25% revenue increase has helped CAF report a €18m net profit for the first half of 2018, up 12% from the same period last year.

SINGAPORE’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded Bombardier Transportation a contract to supply 396 Movia metro cars to run on the high-capacity North - South and East - West metro lines.

CHANNEL Tunnel operator Getlink reported a growth in revenue and Ebitda for the ninth consecutive time in its half-year results for January to June 2018, released on July 25, helped by an increase in freight transported through the tunnel.

RB Rail, the joint venture of the three Baltic States, signed a €139,876 contract with Civitta Estonia and Railistics on July 24 to conduct a feasibility study of a freight terminal at Pärnu as part of the Rail Baltica project.

ALSTOM has signed a €60m contract with Transport for Victoria (TfV), the Australian state’s public transport authority, to supply five additional six-car X’Trapolis EMUs for Melbourne’s suburban rail network.

WORK to excavate a 14m-deep trench that will contain twin tunnels under Britomart Station and Lower Queen Street as part of Auckland’s 3.45km double-track underground City Rail Link (CRL) began on July 24.

JACOBS Engineering, United States, has been selected by Etihad Rail for a contract to provide technical and programme consulting services for the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) national freight and passenger railway network.

SINGAPORE Land Transport Authority has awarded a Siemens and Engie Services Consortium a contract to supply 1253 new track circuits, as well as Siemens’ RailCom Manager System for fully-integrated track circuit condition monitoring.

THE first Leo Express service to Krakow departed on July 20 from platform 1B at Prague's main railway station, becoming the first long-distance open-access passenger operator and the only Czech passenger train operator in Poland.