ALSTOM announced on February 3 that it has been selected by Paris Transport Authority (RATP) to refurbish 31 MI84 trains used on RER B in a contract worth €75m.

WARSAW Tramways launched a tender on February 3 for a contract to supply up to 213 LRVs in a deal which could be worth up to Zlotys 2.3bn ($US 570m) gross.

THE first of 96 new-generation trains being built Metrowagonmash for Moscow Metro arrived at the city’s Vykhino depot at the end of January.

CITY Rail Link has issued a call for tender to pre-qualify by March 1 for the C3 stations and tunnels package of the $NZ 3bn ($US 2.18bn) project to build a cross-city line in Auckland, New Zealand.

FRENCH infrastructure manager SNCF Network has signed a €277m contract with RC2, a consortium of TSO Caténaires, Setec Ferroviare and ETF, for the renewal of overhead electrification on Paris RER Line C.

ALSTOM announced on February 3 that it will supply 10 additional Citadis trams to the Strasbourg Transport Company (CTS) for €28m as part of a framework agreement signed in November 2014.

THE Bretagne-Pays de la Loire high-speed line moved another step closer to the start of operations at the end of January, when TGVs reached the maximum testing speed of 352km/h.

INFRASTRUCTURE Ontario (IO) and Toronto and Hamilton transport authority Metrolinx have issued a Request for Qualification (RFQ) for a contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain Hamilton’s light rail B Line.

HYUNDAI Rotem confirmed on February 2 that it has been awarded a contract to supply rolling stock for the Jakarta LRT project.

FŐMTERV, Hungary, has been awarded a contract to review a 2013 feasibility study into the construction of a connection between Budapest metro Line M2 and the HÉV suburban line to Gödöllő (H8) and Csömör (H9) at Örs vezér tere.