THE first batch out of 240 wagons being supplied by CSR, China, to Etihad Rail has arrived in Abu Dhabi's port of Mina Zayed.
EGYPT's National Authority for Tunnels has placed a $US 360m contract with Hyundai Rotem, Korea, for 20 nine-car trains.
HESSEN State Rail (HLB) has awarded two contracts worth about €40m to Alstom. One contract is for the supply of seven Coradia Lint dmus and the other is to modernise 25 existing Coradia Lint trains.
A SEVERE shortage of rolling stock has led to widespread replacement of train services with buses by Slaskie Railway (KS) which only started its new concession in the Polish province of Silesia with the start of the new timetable on December 9. Within the first of couple of days,
BRITAIN's Department for Transport (DfT) has approved the acquisition by train operating company Southern of 116 emu cars with an option for another 140 vehicles. Southern will now invite bids for the new trains.
SIEMENS handed over two 5.2MW Vectron 3kV dc electric locomotives to DB Schenker Rail Poland at a ceremony at the Polish Railway Institute on December 20.
THE board of Southern California commuter rail operator Metrolink has approved the purchase of 10 Tier 4-compliant locomotives from EMD, which it says will reduce locomotive emissions by 86%.
DANISH State Railways (DSB) and AnsaldoBreda have agreed a final delivery schedule for the troubled IC2 and IC4 inter-city dmu fleets, which were ordered as long ago as 2000 and due to enter service in 2003.
GREATER Braunschweig Regional Rail Vehicles (RGB), a company set up in spring 2012 to procure trains for use on the rail network in the Braunschweig area, has placed a €100m order with Alstom for 20 four-car Coradia emus.
A ceremony was held on December 16 to mark the delivery of the first of nine Stadler emus for Lower Austria Transport Company (Növog), which will use the trains on the 760mm-gauge line between St Pölten and Mariazell.
