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%.
TRANSPORT Scotland is to hold briefing sessions in Glasgow and London next month for companies interested in bidding for the new ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper franchises, which are due to start on April 1 2015.
TRIALS have begun in Sydney of the new Opal contactless public transport smartcard system, which is being installed by the Cubic-led Pearl consortium under a $A 370m ($US 398m) contract awarded in May 2010.
POLISH infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded a consortium of Bombardier (ZWUS) Poland, Thales Poland, and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) a Zlotys 470m ($US 153m) contract for the country's first commercial ERTMS Level 2 installation.
SPAIN's Minister for Public Works and Transport has unveiled the first details of the country's plan to extend standard-gauge track from Barcelona to Valencia and the southeast along the Mediterranean coast line.
BRITAIN's infrastructure manager Network Rail has placed signalling contracts valued at £34.75m with Signalling Solutions, the British joint venture of Alstom and Balfour Beatty.
MTR Corporation has awarded two contracts to supply rolling stock and signalling systems for the Shatin – Central Link (SCL), which will establish a new north – south corridor across Hong Kong.
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.
