HITACHI announced on November 2 that it has completed the acquisition of Italian train builder AnsaldoBreda and signalling specialist Ansaldo STS from Finmeccanica.
ALSTOM says that the company is now entirely focussed on rail transport following the conclusion of the sale of its energy divisions to General Electric (GE) under a deal worth €12.4bn.
EAST Japan Railway Company (JR East) has confirmed its prototype E235 suburban EMU will enter commercial service on Tokyo's circular Yamanote Line on November 30.
THE HAGUE Tramways (HTM) launched its new fleet of Siemens Avenio LRVs on the morning of November 2, when the first of the low-floor vehicles entered passenger service on Line 2 between Kraayenstein and Leidschendam North.
IN what looks likely to be a rail industry first, Locomore, Germany, launched a crowdfunding campaign on October 29 in a bid to finance a new Stuttgart - Berlin open-access service, which could begin operating in September 2016.
THE mayor of Lodz Mrs Hanna Zdanowska officially reopened the city's modernised and extended tram Line 10 in at ceremony at Piotrkowska Centrum public transport interchange on October 31.
VIENNESE public transport operator Wiener Linien has awarded SPL Powerlines Austria a contract to install 750V dc third rail electrification on the southern extension of U-Bahn Line U1 from Reumannplatz to Oberlaa.
CAF has presented the first of 185 metro cars for Santiago to Chilean minister for transport and telecommunications Mr Andrés Gómes-Lobo and Santiago Metro president Mr Rodrigo Azócar at its Bessain plant in northern Spain.
ONTARIO's Ministry of Transportation announced on October 30 that it has appointed former Canadian transport minister Mr David Collenette as its special advisor for high-speed rail to develop options for HSR on the Toronto - London - Windsor corridor.
THE first of two Alstom H3 hybrid locomotives ordered by Audi for shunting operations at its Ingolstadt automotive plant in Bavaria entered service on October 30.
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