AFTER a three-year absence, passenger services between Villach, Austria, and Udine, Italy, were reinstated on June 10, thanks to a joint venture between the European Union and Italian autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
THE LATEST phase of Manchester's expanding Metrolink light rail network opened on June 13 with the start of public services on the line from Victoria to a temporary station at Oldham Mumps.
PROGRESS Rail subsidiary EMD began locomotive assembly in Brazil at the end of May with the launch of production at its plant in Sete Lagoas in the state of Minas Gerais.
DANISH State Railways (DSB) is to receive new emus and double-deck trains under a package of measures to boost public transport use unveiled on June 12 by transport minister Mr Henrik Dam Kristensen.
THE New South Wales (NSW) coalition government has allocated $A 13.2bn ($US 13.06bn) to public transport and roads in its 2012-13 budget, which was announced on June 12.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) is to phase out paper train tickets by autumn 2013, when it will adopt the OV-Chipkaart national public transport smartcard for all fares.
SIEMENS has won three contracts to supply its Trainguard MT Communications-based train control system (CBTC) on new metro lines in the Chinese cities of Suzhou, Qingdao and Chongqing.
BULGARIA's Privatisation and Post-Privatisation Control Agency launched a tender today for the privatisation of Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) railfreight unit BDZ Tovarni Prevozi. Strategic and financial investors must submit binding bids 135 days after the tender is published in the State Gazette.
THE European Union has agreed to finance 94% of a Forints 41bn ($US 173m) project to modernise Budapest tram lines 1 and 3. The work will involve the see the rebuilding of Line 1 between Bécsi út and Stadionok as well as several sections of line 3, including the doubling of a single-track section.
ALMOST four years after construction began, Salt Lake City's FrontRunner South commuter rail project reached a milestone on June 11 with the start of trial operation on the line from Salt Lake Central to Provo.
