HANNOVERIANS had their first opportunity to sample the city's new type TW 3000 light rail vehicles on March 8, when two of the trams carried a total of 3200 passengers on free demonstration trips between Main Station and Allerweg in the city centre.
THE General Director of Serbian Railways (ZS) Mr Dragoljub Simonovic and Mr Sergei Pavlov, CEO of Russian Railways (RZD) subsidiary RZD International signed a $US 89.9m contract in Belgrade on March 6 to finance and implement the modernisation of the Serbian section of Pan-European Corridor 10.
BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded an £87m design and build contract to a joint venture of Carillion and Buckingham Group Contracting to carry out infrastructure works on Chiltern Railways' new London Marylebone – Oxford link.
POLISH State Railways (PKP) long-distance subsidiary PKP Intercity has awarded Pesa, Poland, a Zlotys 131.2m ($US 43.4m) contract to supply 10 four-axle 140km/h diesel-electric locomotives.
LEIPZIG Transport Authority (LVB) has issued a call for tender for up to 41 light rail vehicles to be supplied between 2016 and 2020, with the first five vehicles supplied as a pre-series.
ITALIAN open-access high-speed operator NTV has launched a cost cutting programme due to the effects of Italy's continuing poor economic performance and strong competition from incumbent high-speed operator Trenitalia.
BELGIAN light rail operator, De Lijn, has issued a call for tender for 146 low-floor LRVs for operation in Antwerp, Ghent and the West Flanders coastal line. The deadline to participate is April 17.
BUDAPEST Transport Centre (BKK) has placed a €90m contract with CAF, Spain, for a fleet of 37 low-floor LRVs of two types with an option for another 87 units. Delivery will start at the end of 2015.
MILAN Transport (ATM) opened a short but significant extension to Line 5 of city's metro network on March 1 when the existing 4km northern section linking Bignami with Zara was extended by another 1.4km south to Isola and Garibaldi main line station.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) subsidiary Central Suburban Passenger Company has awarded a contract to Demikhovsky Machine Building Plant (DMZ), part of the Transmashholding (TMH) group, to supply 26 class ED4M emus for suburban services in the Moscow area.
