MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries has delivered the first of three six-car 2020 series rubber-tyred metro trains to Saitama New Urban Transit for use on its Ina Line New Shuttle automated guideway transit (AGT) line in the Tokyo suburbs.

THE management board of Warsaw metro has selected preferred bidders for contracts to construct the two second phase extensions of metro Line M2, which have a combined length of 6.5km.

VOSSLOH confirmed on October 29 that it is close to reaching an agreement on the disposal of its Vossloh Rail Vehicles business unit and announced a 6% increase in group sales in the first nine months of 2015.

SIEMENS has fabricated the first bodyshell at its Krefeld plant in Germany for the fleet of 30 five-car class 707 Desiro City suburban EMUs ordered last year by rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains on behalf of British train operator South West Trains (SWT).

CAF's third-quarter profits for the period ending September 30 have been adversely affected by unfavourable exchange rate fluctuations and particularly the devaluation of the Brazilian Real against the euro.

SINGAPORE's Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced the alignment and station locations for the sixth and final phase of the Circle Line (CCL6) on October 29, confirming that it will complete the 36km loop by 2025.

ITALY's open-access high-speed operator NTV has awarded a €460m contract to Alstom for the supply and maintenance for 20 years of a fleet of eight Pendolino tilting high-speed trains.

INDONESIAN Railways (PT KAI) signed a letter of intent with GE Transportation on October 26 for a multi-year maintenance service agreement covering 50 1067mm-gauge CC206 diesel-electric locomotives ordered by PT KAI last year for use on passenger and freight trains in Java and Sumatra.

THE US rail industry's push to extend the congressionally-imposed deadline for the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) yielded a breakthrough on October 28, when the Senate passed the Surface Transportation Extension Act 2015 (HR 3819) which authorises federal funding for the Highway Trust Fund and gives the railways three more years to roll out PTC.