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July 5, 2019 | Light Rail

First Mauritius Metro Express LRV delivered

THE prime minister of Mauritius, Mr Pravind Jugnauth, attended a ceremony at Port Louis docks on July 4 to mark the delivery of the first LRV for the island’s Metro Express light rail line.

July 4, 2019 | Metros

Trudeau confirms federal funding for Montreal Blue Line extension

CANADA’s prime minister, Mr Justin Trudeau, announced on July 4 that the federal government will contribute $C 1.3bn ($US1bn) towards the extension of the Montreal metro Blue Line from Saint-Michel to Anjou.

July 4, 2019 | Main line

Lithuanian Railways to modernise ticketing systems

LITHUANIAN Railways (LG) has announced plans to upgrade its passenger ticketing system.

July 4, 2019 | Light Rail

Light rail at the heart of £1bn Cardiff transport vision

LIGHT rail is at the centre of a £1bn vision for the future of transport in the Welsh capital, which was unveiled by Cardiff Council leader Mr Huw Edwards at a Welsh government conference on active travel on July 4.

July 4, 2019 | Europe

North Rhine-Westphalia plans line reopenings

THE Ministry of Transport in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has announced plans to reopen two lines to passenger traffic.

July 4, 2019 | Fleet

VR Group plans EMU order to replace Sm2 fleet

FINNISH operator VR Group has announced plans to invest around €250m to purchase a new fleet of trains to replace the Sm2 EMUs currently used on suburban services around Helsinki.

July 4, 2019 | Fleet

Munich orders additional Avenio LRVs

MUNICH Transport (MVG) and Munich City Authority (SWM) has exercised an option worth more than €200m for 73 additional Avenio LRVs from Siemens.

July 3, 2019 | Technology

Nomad Digital awarded DSB Wi-Fi contract

DANISH State Railways (DSB) has awarded a consortium of Alstom Transport UK, Alstom Transport Denmark and Nomad Digital a contract to install on-board passenger Wi-Fi across the operator’s regional and inter-city fleets.

July 3, 2019 | Freight

Alberta looks to dump multi-billion-dollar oil trains

OIL trains funded by the Canadian province of Alberta were supposed to start transporting Alberta’s glut of bitumen to foreign markets on July 1 under a $US 2.8bn contract committing provincial taxpayers to leasing 4400 tank wagons and guaranteed payments to Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).

July 3, 2019 | Light Rail

French cities top light rail benchmarking study

FRENCH cities have topped the rankings in a new benchmarking study into the performance of 32 tram networks around the world.

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