BULGARIAN track authority National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRIC) has awarded a consortium of Thales Austria and Kapsch CarrierCom a €35m turnkey contract to install ERTMS on the 133km Sofia – Plovdiv line, which forms part of Trans-European Corridor IV from Dresden and Nuremberg to Istanbul.
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.
BOMBARDIER began dynamic testing of the Traxx F140 AC LM electro-diesel locomotive at its Henningsdorf facility near Berlin during January.
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.
GERMAN intermodal operator Kombiverkehr is launching a total of 32 new services in the first quarter of this year to meet a significant increase in demand.
RUSSIA's Ministry of Transport says construction could begin on the country's first high-speed lines within a year, allowing commercial services to start in time for the 2018 soccer World Cup.
THE Finnish Transport Agency has secured match-funding worth €5m from the European Union's TEN-T Programme for further studies into the proposed Helsinki City Rail Loop.
A task force headed by Lord Adonis, a former British transport minister, recommends the construction of Crossrail 2 in London as a heavy rail link with through running onto existing suburban lines.
