THE mayor of San Francisco Mr Ed Lee visited Siemens’ Sacramento plant on August 29 to view the first of 215 S200 SF LRVs for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).
THE first of 70 class 385 regional EMUs for ScotRail was delivered to the VUZ Velim test track in the Czech Republic on August 26 after completing its journey from Hitachi’s Kasado plant in Japan.
JAPAN’s Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) announced on August 24 that its pre-series Dual Energy Charge Train (Dencha) battery-assisted EMU will enter revenue service on the 11km Orio - Wakamatsu section of the Chikuho Line on October 19.
TRANSMASHHOLDING (TMH) has set up a Hungarian subsidiary, Transzmasholding Hungary, with the aim of establishing a joint venture with local manufacturer Dunakeszi Járműjavító, the operator of a former Bombardier plant which is currently assembling trams for CAF.
AMTRAK announced on August 26 that it has awarded Alstom a contract to supply 28 high-speed trains for the Washington DC - New York - Boston Northeast Corridor (NEC), which will replace the existing Acela fleet and provide additional capacity on the 730km route.
HUBER & Suhner announced on August 15 that it signed a five-year contract with Bombardier to be its main cable supplier.
TRANSPORTNAYA Koncessionnaya Kompanya (TKK), a consortium of Lider Group and LSR Group, in St Petersburg, Russia, has placed an order with Stadler for 23 Metelitsa trams. The first six vehicles are due to handed over in July 2017.
URAL Locomotives presented the last of 33 ES2G Lastochka EMUs for the Moscow Ring Railway to Central Suburban Passenger Company at Podmoskovnaya depot in Moscow on August 22.
BOMBARDIER inaugurated its new South African production site and headquarters in Isando, Johannesburg, on August 25.
THE first of 10 Kiss 2 double-deck EMUs for Austrian long-distance open-access operator Westbahn was moved from Stadler’s plant at Altenrhein in the Swiss canton of St Gallen to the company’s commissioning centre at nearby Erlen on August 12.
