WROCLAW Municipal Transport (MPK) has issued a call for tender for 40 bidirectional LRVs with a closing date for bids of July 3.

HOHENZOLLERN Railways (HzL) has awarded Alstom a contract worth around €50m to supply 10 Coradia Lint 54 DMUs for the Ulm Star regional network in Baden-Württemberg, which HzL will operate for 13 years from June 2019.

THE first e320 train arrived in Brussels on May 23 on a preview trip from London ahead of the entry of these trains on the London - Brussels route on May 28.

HITACHI Rail Italy invited representatives of the media, Great Western Railway (GWR) and leasing company Eversholt Rail to its Pistoia plant on May 23 to view progress with the new fleet of class 802 inter-city trains for services from London to Devon and Cornwall.

FIVE suppliers have submitted bids to Warsaw Tramways for a contract to supply 123 low-floor LRVs with options for 90 additional vehicles.

THE board of Phoenix Valley Metro Rail has approved two orders for a total of 17 LRVs, which are being procured as part of the expansion of the LRT network in the Arizonan state capital.

AUSTRIAN open-access operator Westbahn presented its new-generation double-deck EMU, the Stadler Kiss 2, to the press on May 19.

WARSAW Metro has issued a call for tender for the supply of 37 six-car trains for operation on lines 1 and 2. Closing date for bids is September 27.

STADLER presented the first of 29 Giruno 250km/h electric trains to Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) at a ceremony in Bussnang on May 18 attended by the president of the Swiss Confederation, Ms Doris Leuthard, and the CEO of SBB Mr Andreas Meyer.

ITALY’s national operator Trenitalia has launched a tender for a €1.6bn framework contract to supply up to 135 diesel-electric passenger trains and to maintain them for 15 years.