THE first batch out of 240 wagons being supplied by CSR, China, to Etihad Rail has arrived in Abu Dhabi's port of Mina Zayed.
EGYPT's National Authority for Tunnels has placed a $US 360m contract with Hyundai Rotem, Korea, for 20 nine-car trains.
HESSEN State Rail (HLB) has awarded two contracts worth about €40m to Alstom. One contract is for the supply of seven Coradia Lint dmus and the other is to modernise 25 existing Coradia Lint trains.
A SEVERE shortage of rolling stock has led to widespread replacement of train services with buses by Slaskie Railway (KS) which only started its new concession in the Polish province of Silesia with the start of the new timetable on December 9. Within the first of couple of days,
BRITAIN's Department for Transport (DfT) has approved the acquisition by train operating company Southern of 116 emu cars with an option for another 140 vehicles. Southern will now invite bids for the new trains.
THE board of Southern California commuter rail operator Metrolink has approved the purchase of 10 Tier 4-compliant locomotives from EMD, which it says will reduce locomotive emissions by 86%.
MTR Corporation has awarded two contracts to supply rolling stock and signalling systems for the Shatin – Central Link (SCL), which will establish a new north – south corridor across Hong Kong.
GREATER Braunschweig Regional Rail Vehicles (RGB), a company set up in spring 2012 to procure trains for use on the rail network in the Braunschweig area, has placed a €100m order with Alstom for 20 four-car Coradia emus.
SEVEN years after construction began, Bilbao – San Sebastian EuskoTren services started using the new 4km tunnel beneath the town of Durango on December 17.
PARIS celebrated the opening of its third light rail extension in a month on December 15 with the inauguration of a new 14.5km section of the orbital Line T3.
