THE first of 38 low-floor LRVs being supplied to Izmir by the Eurotem joint venture of Hyundai Rotem and Turkish State Railways (TCDD) subsidiary Tüvsaş was presented to the mayor of Izmir Mr Aziz Kocaoglu at the company's plant at Adapazari in northwest Turkey on October 14.
AUSTRIAN Federal Railways (ÖBB) has launched an international tender for a contract to supply up to 200 electric freight locomotives.
LEASING company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe (MRCE) has ordered an additional 21 Vectron locomotives from Siemens taking its fleet of Vectrons to 56.
SIEMENS confirmed on September 29 that Denver and Minneapolis have exercised options on existing contracts for additional LRVs.
CROATIAN prime minister Mr Zoran Milanovic and minister of maritime affairs, transport and infrastructure Mr Sinisa Hajdaš Dončić officially launched Croatian Railways (HŽ) new fleet of EMUs for Zagreb suburban services on October 6.
NICE Côte dAzur Metropolitan Council has awarded Alstom a €91m contract to supply 19 Citadis X05 low-floor LRVs for the city's second light rail line.
RAILSERVE, United States, has despatched six Dual-Leaf genset locomotives from Houston to Libreville, Gabon, for use by Transgabonaise Exploitation Company (Setrag) as part of a project to modernise its railfreight operations.
IRJ at Railway Interchange: Wi-Tronix, United States, launched two new in-cab driver safety systems in Minneapolis.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has placed two orders with a combined value of SFr 265m ($US 274m) for 47 locomotives and 35 track maintenance vehicles as part of a programme to modernise its infrastructure maintenance fleet, which has an average age of more than 40 years.
THE Norwegian government has allocated Norwegian State Railways (NSB) NKr 1.55bn ($US 190m) towards the acquisition of 26 additional Stadler Flirt EMUs as part its 2016 state budget, which was unveiled on October 7.
