CZECH infrastructure manager SŽDC awarded Strabag, Austria, a €34m contract on August 9 to renovate the 46km Okříšky - Zastávka u Brna line in southern Czech Republic.
THE first of 42 driverless metro trains being supplied by Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI) for Lima metro Line 2 was loaded onto the MV Cerinthus at the port of Salerno on August 16 in readiness for its 29-day sea voyage to Peru.
MEXICO City’s Collective Transport System (STC) has awarded a €164m contract to CAF Mexico for 10 nine-car rubber-tyred metro trains for Line 1.
THE first of 26 LRVs being built by Stadler for the light rail network in Aarhus arrived in the Danish city for testing on August 11.
THE Norwegian city of Bergen opened a further extension of its north-south light rail line on August 15 when the city’s mayor Mrs Marte Mjøs Persen and Hordaland county mayor Mrs Anne Gine Hestetun cut the ribbon to inaugurate the 4.8km southern section between Lagunen and Birkelandsskiftet.
CALTRAIN, which operates the San Francisco - San Jose commuter rail line in California, has awarded contracts to Stadler Rail for new trains and Balfour Beatty to electrify the 83.7km line.
THE Japanese government announced on August 12 that it will provide a $US 2.4bn loan for a new railway in the Philippines in order to ease Manila’s traffic difficulties.
CHINA Railways Corporation inaugurated its new standard high-speed EMU, which has been under development since 2012, on the Dalian – Shenyang line on August 15.
ONTARIO’s premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled the first of 16 refurbished Polar Bear Express passenger coaches in North Bay on August 12.
TRIAL operation is expected to start in September on the 665km standard-gauge electrified line linking Addis Ababa with Djibouti.
