EGYPTIAN National Railways (ENR) has issued a general procurement notice regarding its plans to upgrade the passenger service on the busy 208km Cairo – Alexandria corridor and possibly on the 879km main line from Cairo south to Luxor and Aswan.
EUROSTAR moved an important step closer to the launch of its Siemens e320 Velaro (class 374) high-speed trains on October 16, when the French Railway Safety Board (EPSF) granted an authorisation to place into service (APS) enabling the fleet to operate commercially in France.
THE HAGUE Tramways (HTM) launched its new fleet of Siemens Avenio LRVs on the morning of November 2, when the first of the low-floor vehicles entered passenger service on Line 2 between Kraayenstein and Leidschendam North.
IN what looks likely to be a rail industry first, Locomore, Germany, launched a crowdfunding campaign on October 29 in a bid to finance a new Stuttgart - Berlin open-access service, which could begin operating in September 2016.
THE mayor of Lodz Mrs Hanna Zdanowska officially reopened the city's modernised and extended tram Line 10 in at ceremony at Piotrkowska Centrum public transport interchange on October 31.
VIENNESE public transport operator Wiener Linien has awarded SPL Powerlines Austria a contract to install 750V dc third rail electrification on the southern extension of U-Bahn Line U1 from Reumannplatz to Oberlaa.
CAF has presented the first of 185 metro cars for Santiago to Chilean minister for transport and telecommunications Mr Andrés Gómes-Lobo and Santiago Metro president Mr Rodrigo Azócar at its Bessain plant in northern Spain.
MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries has delivered the first of three six-car 2020 series rubber-tyred metro trains to Saitama New Urban Transit for use on its Ina Line New Shuttle automated guideway transit (AGT) line in the Tokyo suburbs.
THE management board of Warsaw metro has selected preferred bidders for contracts to construct the two second phase extensions of metro Line M2, which have a combined length of 6.5km.
SINGAPORE's Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced the alignment and station locations for the sixth and final phase of the Circle Line (CCL6) on October 29, confirming that it will complete the 36km loop by 2025.
