AUSTRIAN light rail operator Wiener Lokalbahnen (WLB) has signed an agreement with the local governments of Vienna and Lower Austria to finance a batch of 18 new LRVs for its 30km line from Vienna to Baden.

AMSTERDAM Municipal Transport (GVB) has issued the first artist’s impressions of the forthcoming CAF Urbos 100 LRV for the city.

THE governor of Riyadh Prince Faisal bin Bandar says that passenger services on the southern section of Saudi Railway Company’s (SAR) North-South Railway from Riyadh to Al-Mujamma'ah will begin at the start of 2017.

DALLAS Area Rapid Transit (Dart) inaugurated the 4.1km southern extension of the light rail Blue Line from Ledbetter to the University of North Texas at Dallas on October 20.

MTR Corporation CEO Mr Lincoln Leong welcomed passengers to Whampoa station in Kowloon on October 23 to mark the official opening of the 2.6km extension of Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong Line from Yau Ma Tei.

NORMANDY is set award Bombardier a contract next month to replace Corail coaches on inter-city services which the region is taking over from French National Railways (SNCF), according to regional councillor Mr Jean-Baptiste Gastienne.

MUMBAI Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) launched construction on the city’s third metro line on October 21 with groundbreaking ceremonies at seven locations along the route.

THE Acciona-Odebrecht construction consortium, building the first metro line in the Ecuadorian capital Quito has commissioned Siemens to electrify the line, it was announced on October 21.

ALSTOM presented the first of six ETR 526 Jazz EMUs for the Autonomous province of Trento to provincial president Mr Ugo Rossi, councillor for infrastructure and the environment Mr Mauro Gilmozzi, and representatives of Trenitalia on October 21.

AS part of its turnaround plan, Bombardier announced on October 21 that it will cut 7500 jobs, or over 10% of its workforce, in an effort to deliver recurring savings of $US300m by the end of 2018.