ARGENTINA’s Ministry of Transport and Argentinean Trains (TA) have held a series of technical consultations with international rolling stock suppliers as part of preparations for procurement for the Buenos Aires RER project.

THE first batch of coaches for the Mombasa - Nairobi Standard-Gauge Railway (SGR) line arrived at the port of Nairobi on January 29.

KAWASAKI Heavy Industries has begun delivering a fleet of eight 500 series express EMUs to Japan’s Tobu Railway.

SIEMENS has concluded two further contracts for Vectron electric locomotives with customers in Austria and Switzerland.

BADEN-Württemberg Ministry of Transport announced on January 26 that it has awarded DB Regio a contract to operate regional services on the Rhine Valley line from Karlsruhe to Basle in Switzerland.

MPK Poznan announced on January 23 that it has selected local supplier Modertrans for a contract to supply 50 low-floor LRVs.

THE first Brightline train began testing on January 19 on a 14.5km test track from Park Place in West Palm Beach to Central Boulevard in Lantana.

NAMIBIA’s national railway TransNamib moved an important step closer to alleviating its chronic locomotive shortage on January 13, when a batch of six GE Transportation C23EMP diesel-electric locomotives arrived at the port of Walvis Bay.

HUNGARIAN national passenger operator MÁV-Start has taken delivery of its final Flirt EMU from Stadler Rail.

THE first of 18 Alstom Metropolis trains for Guadalajara metro Line 3 was officially unveiled by Mexico’s secretary of state for transport and communications Mr Gerardo Ruiz Espara at a ceremony in the city on January 24.