SIEMENS Rail Automation has completed a three-month project to equip the fleet of 135 trains used on the Copenhagen S-Train network with GSM-R cab radio equipment.
REGIONAL train services across a large area of eastern Switzerland were stepped up on December 15 with a major expansion of the St Gallen S-Bahn network.
A GROUP of 17 Danish municipalities are calling for improvements to cross-border train services between eastern Jutland and northern Germany after a study carried out by Atkins concluded that significant improvements could be made in journey times on the Århus – Hamburg corridor without major investment in infrastructure.
THE first of 11 Citadis 402 low-floor LRVs for Dubai's Al Sufouh Tramway arrived in the United Arab Emirates through the port of Jebel Ali last week, and has been delivered to the line's depot in readiness for the start of testing.
THREE consortia have submitted bids to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, for the $C 536m ($US 505m) PPP contract to design, build, operate, and maintain the city's first light rail line.
SWISS transport minister Mrs Doris Leuthard launched the first official test train into the 57km Gotthard Base Tunnel on December 16, marking the 900-day countdown to the completion of the project, which is scheduled for December 2016.
SWEDISH transport authority Trafikverket has selected Nexans as its primary supplier of railway infrastructure cables in a €16m, two-year framework contract which could be extended for another two years from 2016.
AN important gap in the Munich tram network was finally filled on December 15 with the opening of the 1km western extension of Line 19 to the mainline station in Pasing.
PUGET Sound regional transport authority, Sound Transit, has awarded Wabtec a $US 34m contract to design, supply and install Positive Train Control (PTC) on the 132km Sounder commuter rail network around Seattle.
THE European Commission (EC) has adopted the seven-year €1bn Shift2Rail public-private partnership (PPP) research project designed to increase passenger and freight traffic within the European Union.
