FOLLOWING an international tender, Gothenburg Tramways has awarded a consortium of Bombardier and Vossloh Kiepe a €140m contract to supply 40 Flexity low-floor LRVs.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has confirmed to IRJ that it has placed an order with Bombardier for a further eight class 245 Traxx ME multi-engine diesel-electric locomotives, supplementing the fleet of 27 units already in service.
CAF began testing the first Trenitalia class 402A locomotive for future push-pull 200km/h inter-city services at the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic on October 1.
GEORGIAN Railway has signed a preliminary with a joint venture of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive and Georgia’s BMI Partners and AS Group for the supply of 28 electric locomotives.
ABELLIO announced on October 5 that it has concluded contracts worth more than £600m with Stadler Rail and leasing company Rock Rail to procure and finance 58 multiple units for Britain’s new East Anglia franchise.
SIEMENS and Mapna, Iran, will supply 50 diesel locomotives to Iranian Islamic Republic Railways (RAI) under an agreement signed by German federal industry minister Mr Sigmar Gabriel during an official visit to Tehran this week.
FRANCE’s industry minister Mr Christophe Sirugue told a meeting of union representatives and elected officials in Belfort on October 4 that the French government will fund an order for 15 TGV Euroduplex trains and 20 locomotives to save Alstom’s plant in the town from closure.
TAMPERE City Council decided on October 3 to select Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech as preferred bidder for a contract to supply and maintain low-floor LRVs for the Finnish city’s first light rail line.
THE last of 83 Hyundai Rotem FP class Matangi EMUs entered service on Wellington’s Metlink commuter rail network at the end of September, marking the completion of a $NZ 430m ($US 313m) project to modernise the rolling stock fleet in New Zealand’s second-largest city.
