INVENSYS Rail has been awarded a $A 39m ($US 40.6m) turnkey contract by South Australia's Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure to install ERTMS signalling and train control on Adelaide's commuter rail network as part of the Adelaide Rail Revitalisation programme.
THE Municipality of Amsterdam has exercised an option worth around €42m to acquire five additional six-car Metropolis metro trains from Alstom.
TRANSFIMA GEIE, a joint venture of Siemens, France and Tecnimont, Italy, has won a €37.6m contract to equip a 1.6km extension of the Turin light metro.
MANCHESTER Metrolink launched full commercial services on the East Manchester line on February 11 with the opening of the initial 6.3km section between Piccadilly and Droylsden.
THE Russian Railway Research Institute (VNIIZhT) has signed a supplementary agreement with Talgo to define the services it will provide during the project to develop Talgo passenger coaches for use on 1520mm-gauge infrastructure.
THE Mauritian Ministry of Public Infrastructure has invited expressions of interest for a design-build-operate-maintain PPP concession for the planned light rail line between the island's capital Port Louis and Curepipe.
LEASING company Alpha Trains has signed a contract worth nearly €250m with Stadler Pankow to supply a fleet of 28 emus for German regional operator WestfalenBahn.
A CEREMONY was held in Milan on February 5 to mark the inauguration of the initial phase of the city's first driverless metro line.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced plans for a £320m project to lengthen trains on the London Overground network from four to five cars with the aim of accommodating rapidly-increasing ridership.
RHINE-Ruhr Transport Association (VRR), as lead contractor for two other transport authorities, has awarded two 15-year regional concessions in North Rhine Westphalia to a consortium of National Express Rail and IntEgro Transport.
