A consortium of China National Technical Import and Export Corporation and CRRC Corporation subsidiary Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock has completed delivery of an order for 11 electric locomotives for Uzbekistan Railways (UTY).

WINDHOFF has released further details of the 35 self-propelled On-Track Machines it is supplying Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in what it says is the company's largest ever order.

EUROTUNNEL reported on December 23 that its Le Shuttle railfreight service for road vehicles set an annual record for Channel Tunnel lorry shipments in 2015 beating the previous record set in 2012.

INITIAL testing has been completed at Siemens' Allach plant in Munich on the first three EU 46 Vectron electric locomotives for PKP Cargo.

COMMERCIAL services began on the 157.9km Tianjin - Baoding high-speed line on December 28, closing an important gap in the high-speed network south of Beijing.

ITALIAN minister for transport and infrastructure Mr Graziano Delrio and the mayor of Palermo Mr Leoluca Orlando inaugurated the Sicilian capital's light rail network on December 30.

BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR), has invited tenders for a £112m project to rebuild and expand Glasgow Queen Street station, the third busiest station in Scotland.

MID-SAXONY Transport Authority (VMS) says it will start using eight electro-diesel Citylink tram-trains for services from Chemnitz city centre to Hainichen, Burgstadt and Mittweida in early 2016.

TRANSMASHHOLDING subsidiary Metrovagonmash says it is ready to begin series production of its DP-M DMU after completing the certification process with a four-car prototype train.

STADLER Minsk has rolled out the first of two 1520mm-gauge EPm-001 inter-city EMUs for Belarus Railways (BC).