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November 20, 2020 | Policy

€10.5bn for rail in Portuguese 10-year investment plan

PORTUGAL’s prime minister, Mr António Costa, has outlined a €26.3bn 2030 National Investment Programme, which includes investing €10.51bn in 16 rail projects over the next decade.

November 20, 2020 | Fleet

Transmashholding delivers new passenger fleets

TRANSMASHHOLDING (TMH) subsidiary Tver Carriage Works (TVZ) has announced the delivery of 18 passenger coaches to Russian Railways’ (RZD) Far Eastern Railway.

November 20, 2020 | Financial

Leo Express secures certification to operate in Germany

CZECH private operator Leo Express has been certified to operate passenger services in Germany by the Federal Railway Authority (EBA), following the completion of a year-long process.

November 19, 2020 | Fleet

China Railways to receive new high-speed trains

CHINA National Railways (CR) will receive a new fleet of 14 eight-car high-speed trains from Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation (BST) by January 2021, under a Yuan 1.6 billion ($US 248m) contract agreed in 2018.

November 19, 2020 | Fleet

MTR deploys new LRVs

HONG Kong’s MTR began operating the first two of its new Phase 5 single-car LRVs on November 17, following the completion of testing and certification.

November 19, 2020 | Asia

Dhaka awards engineering consultancy contract for Line 5 section

DHAKA Mass Transit Company (DMTCL), which oversees the implementation of the Bangladeshi capital’s metro project, has awarded a Yen 13.5bn ($US 127m) consultancy contract for the 20km MRT Line 5 North section to a Nippon Koei-led consortium of seven businesses.

November 19, 2020 | Fleet

Warsaw EMU order secures €46m EU grant

THE European Commission (EC) has approved €46m in funding to support Warsaw commuter rail operator SKM’s purchase of 21 EMUs from Newag.

November 19, 2020 | Rolling stock

Protecting Finland’s trains from the cold

Every year, Finnish national operator VR works to maintain the operation of rail services throughout the intense Finnish winters, as VR Group’s senior vice-president of train operations, Nina Mähönen, explains to Oliver Cuenca.

November 18, 2020 | Commuter Rail

Talks continue for new Miami-Dade Brightline commuter service

FLORIDA’s Miami-Dade County board of county commissioners has agreed to continue talks with Brightline over a new commuter rail service along the Brightline/Florida East Coast Railway (FECR) corridor.

November 18, 2020 | News

Pakistan to seek reduced Chinese loan for Mainline-1 project

THE government of Pakistan is reportedly planning to seek a reduced $US 2.7bn loan from China to support the construction of package 1 of its $US 7.2bn Karachi - Peshawar Mainline-1 (ML-1) project.

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