HITACHI Rail Europe announced on February 15 that production has begun at Hitachi Rail Italy’s Pistoia plant on the first of 36 class 802 inter-city trains for Great Western Railway (GWR).
THE first of 30 new metre-gauge diesel-electric locomotives built by Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Ziyang arrived in Argentina on February 8.
ALSTOM has begun approval testing in Germany for the fleet of 20 class ED250 Pendolino trains supplied to Polish long distance operator PKP Intercity in 2014.
THE first Solaris Tramino XL LRV for Leipzig City Transport (LVB) went on public display at the city’s exhibition centre on February 11.
THE mayor of Izmir Mr Aziz Kocaoglu officially unveiled the city’s new fleet of CRRC light metro trains on February 11.
UKRAINIAN steel producer Interpipe has delivered its first batch of wheels to Saudi Railways Organisation (SRO).
SLOVAKIA’s national passenger operator ZSSK has launched a tender worth €69.5m for the supply of 26.4m-long long-distance air-conditioned passenger coaches.
CHINA Railway Investment Corporation (Cric) has issued tenders for contracts to supply 586 electric locomotives and 40,000 freight wagons to China Railway Corporation (CRC).
MILAN Transport (ATM) exercised an option with Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI) on February 8 for 15 additional Leonardo metro trains.
THE government of Azerbaijan has secured a €277m loan from a consortium of Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and the French branch of HSBC Bank to purchase 50 locomotives for use on the Baku - Tbilisi - Kars line.
