FINLAND’s VR Group is planning to invest more than €100m in the modernisation of its ageing fleet of diesel locomotives.
BOMBARDIER announced on March 27 that it, along with its local partner Hartasuma, will supply 27 additional Innovia Metro 300 trains for the recently-extended Kelana Jaya LRT Line in Kuala Lumpur.
A three-car DMU built by TZV Gredelj, Croatia, has arrived in Sweden for a promotional visit to the Inland Railway.
RUSSIAN manufacturer Muromteplovoz has built the prototype of a new railbus design for minor branch lines in Cuba.
HUNGARIAN national passenger operator and traction provider MÁV-Start has selected Stadler Bussnang for a contract to supply at least 10 high-capacity EMUs, each with 600 seats.
PORTUGUESE Trains (CP) unveiled its first refurbished series 4000 Alfa Pendular tilting inter-city EMU at a ceremony at Lisbon Santa Apolónia station on March 24.
THE first of 62 Traxx AC electric locomotives for Israel Railways (IR) has been completed at Bombardier’s plant in Kassel, Germany, and is now ready for testing on the plant’s internal test track.
MOSCOVITES got their first taste of the Russian capital’s next generation tram on March 17, when the city’s mayor Mr Sergey Sobyanin marked the introduction of two prototype Vityaz-M vehicles into passenger service.
THE board of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa) voted unanimously on March 23 to award a contract for 45 double-deck commuter coaches to CRRC Corporation’s US subsidiary CRRC MA.
LOS ANGELES County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) has awarded CRRC a contract to supply 64 metro cars for the city’s Red and Purple lines, with options for up to 218 additional vehicles.
