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April 7, 2020 | Infrastructure

Contract to construct southwestern Bari line awarded

ITALIAN State Railways (FS) engineering subsidiary Italferr has awarded D'Agostino Angelo Antonio Costruzioni Generali an €80m contract to construct a new 10km line providing additional capacity into Bari from the southwest.

April 7, 2020 | Metros

Hong Kong approves Tung Chung Line metro extension project

THE Hong Kong government has given MTR the green light to carry out detailed planning and design for the Tung Chung Line metro extension project.

April 7, 2020 | Middle East

Israel electrification programme accelerated as ETCS Level 2 tested

ISRAEL Railways (IR) has successfully extended electrification of the A1 Link to Tel Aviv Hashalom and Tel Aviv Savidor/Central stations and begun tests on the section on April 5, just days after announcing plans to revise and accelerate its network electrification programme.

April 7, 2020 | Fleet

BOB begins testing of new Lint DMU fleet

ALSTOM has delivered the first of 31 Coradia Lint DMUs to Bavarian Oberland Railway (BOB) ahead of the start of testing on the Oberland network.

April 7, 2020 | Fleet

United Wagon wins two wagon orders in Azerbaijan

UNITED Wagon Company (UWC), Russia, has secured contracts from two Azerbaijani rail freight operators to supply 25-tonne axleload freight wagons of three types.

April 6, 2020 | Main line

Vy lays off another 400 employees as passenger numbers plummet by 80%

NORWEGIAN rail and bus operator Vy has announced that it has been forced to lay-off a further 400 employees from its rail and administration sectors.

April 6, 2020 | Fleet

Vlexx begins operation with Bombardier EMUs

GERMAN regional operator Vlexx introduced the first two new Talent 3 three-car EMUs on the RB 74 line between Homburg and Illingen, in Saarland, on March 31.

April 6, 2020 | High-speed

Hitachi unveils latest version of JR Central maglev test train

HITACHI has unveiled a more streamlined version of the series LO maglev test train which it is building for JR Central.

April 6, 2020 | Metros

Warsaw opens 3.4km Line M2 extension

WARSAW Metro opened the 3.4km Wolski extension to Line M2 from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Ksiecia Janusza on April 5, adding three new stations to the two line network.

April 6, 2020 | High-speed

Final design contracts for Latvian Rail Baltica line awarded

RB Rail, the body implementing the Rail Baltica project, has awarded two contracts on behalf of the Latvian Ministry of Transport for design and design supervision of the two remaining sections of the Latvian main line.

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