MACEDONIAN prime minister Mr Nikola Gruevski officially launched Macedonian Railways' (MZ) new fleet of Chinese-built regional trains on November 15 with an inaugural trip from Skopje to Veles.
REPRESENTATIVES of Dunakeszi Railway Works, Hungary, and CAF signed a contract on November 4 to localise the final assembly of CAF Urbos LRVs for Budapest Transport Company (BKV).
VICTORIA's minister for public transport Mrs Jacinta Allan announced on November 23 that the government of the Australian state has exercised a $A 274m ($US 197m) option with Bombardier for 20 additional E-Class (Flexity Swift) low-floor LRVs for the Melbourne tram network.
THE first of seven CityLink LRVs for Sheffield's tram-train pilot project has left Vossloh Rail Vehicles' plant at Albuixech near Valencia in Spain on the first leg of its journey to Britain.
EUROSTAR's new fleet of Siemens Velaro e320 (class 374) high-speed trains entered passenger service on the morning of November 20, when one of the 16-car sets formed the 10.24 from London St Pancras to Paris Nord.
THE mayor of London Mr Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TfL) unveiled the artist's impressions of the Bombardier Aventra EMU for the city's east-west Crossrail link, which is due to open in 2018.
CANADIAN pension fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) announced on November 19 that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Bombardier to acquire a 30% stake in Bombardier Transportation for $C 1.5bn ($US 1.1bn) in a deal which values the company at $C 5bn.
NUREMBERG Transport (VAG) announced on November 17 that it will replace the oldest rolling stock in its U-Bahn fleet with new trains from mid-2018.
WABTEC has secured a $US 26m order to supply electronically-controlled pneumatic (ECP) braking equipment and components for the 1186 tanks wagons that The Greenbrier Companies is supplying to Saudi Railway Company (SAR).
THE eight new CAF EDU ATR365 trains for Sardinia will enter service with the start of the 2016 timetable on December 13 after Italy's Agency for National Railway Safety certified the trains for operation.
