DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded an Rs 6.45bn ($US 100m) contract to BEML, India, for 75 broad-gauge metro cars.
FORTH WORTH Transportation Authority signed a $US 106.7m contract with Stadler Rail for eight four-car articulated DMUs for the Tex Rail commuter line in a ceremony at the city's Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC) on June 9.
NEWAG, Poland, handed over the first of 12 Impuls 45WE EMUs for Masovian Railways (KM) on June 8 in the presence of Masovian regional premier Mr Adam Struzik.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) unveiled its new Twindexx Express IR 200 long-distance EMU at Bombardier's Villeneuve plant in western Switzerland on June 8.
The construction of a circular light rail line in Kaohsiung will bring more residents and businesses in Taiwan's second city within easy reach of the rail network, as James Chuang explains.
A new board of directors at TransNamib is providing a life-line to Namibia's railway, which has suffered from decades of under-investment in its network and fleet, as Paul Ash reports from Windhoek.
FINLAND's VR Group announced at the end of May that Siemens has begun assembling the first class Sr3 Vectron electric locomotive at its Allach plant near Munich.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has begun commercial operation of the first of a batch of triple-section dc electric freight locomotives, produced by Transmashholding's NEVZ plant.
VIENNA's public transport operator Wiener Linien has awarded a €431m contract to Bombardier to supply and maintain for 24 years a fleet of 119 Flexity LRVs. The contract includes an option for an additional 37 LRVs together with their maintenance.
THE first two of five double-deck Kiss EMUs ordered from Stadler by Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) under a €70m contract signed in May have arrived in the Azerbaijan capital Baku.
