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February 5, 2020 | Infrastructure

Serbia 2025 programme includes €3.5bn for rail

SERBIA is to invest more than €3.5bn in railway projects as part of its €14bn Serbia 2025 transport investment programme compared with around €5bn for road.

February 5, 2020 | Light Rail

Contract awarded for Rabat LRT extension feasibility study

EGIS and CID have been awarded a contract to undertake a feasibility study of the extension of the Rabat light rail network to Salé airport in the northeast and Témara to the south.

February 5, 2020 | Fleet

Alstom wins German battery train contract

MID Saxony Transport Authority (VMS), with the support of Greater Leipzig Transport Authority (ZVNL), has awarded Alstom a €100m contract for 11 three-car Coradia Continental battery-EMUs (BEMU), which are scheduled to enter service in 2023.

February 4, 2020 | Financial

Stadler reports record orders in 2019

STADLER reported a record order intake of SFr 5bn ($US 5.1bn) and a record order backlog in 2019. The company’s service division vastly exceeded expectations, reporting SFr 800m of sales.

February 4, 2020 | Light Rail

Construction starts on Parramatta light rail project

MAJOR construction has commenced on the 12km Parramatta Light Rail project in Parramatta, western Sydney, following a groundbreaking ceremony on February 4.

February 4, 2020 | High-speed

First direct London Eurostar departs Amsterdam as Eurostar-Thalys merger progresses

EUROSTAR operated the inaugural direct Amsterdam - London high-speed service on February 4, ahead of the start of commercial services between the two capitals on April 30.

February 4, 2020 | Track

Finland pilots condition-based maintenance for points

VR FleetCare and the Fairway Agency have launched a pilot project to collect data on switch malfunctions with the goal of reducing the more than 5000 point failures reported across Finland’s rail network every year.

February 4, 2020 | Main line

East West Rail phase 2 work to proceed

A Works Act Order application by British infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) for phase 2 of the East-West Rail project to restore services from Oxford and Aylesbury to Milton Keynes and Bedford has been approved by the Department for Transport.

February 4, 2020 | Europe

NS to improve international services in 2021

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) plans to cut the Amsterdam - Berlin journey time and expand high-speed connections to Paris and London from the start of the 2021 timetable on December 13 2020.

February 4, 2020 | Main line

Czech Railways reports growth in 2019

CZECH Railways (ČD), the state-owned operator and largest passenger train operator in the Czech Republic, carried 182 million passengers in 2019, a 1.6% increase year-on-year, with passenger-km increasing by 5.6% to 8.685 billion.

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