THE mayor of Lodz Mrs Hanna Zdanowska officially reopened the city's modernised and extended tram Line 10 in at ceremony at Piotrkowska Centrum public transport interchange on October 31.
VIENNESE public transport operator Wiener Linien has awarded SPL Powerlines Austria a contract to install 750V dc third rail electrification on the southern extension of U-Bahn Line U1 from Reumannplatz to Oberlaa.
CAF has presented the first of 185 metro cars for Santiago to Chilean minister for transport and telecommunications Mr Andrés Gómes-Lobo and Santiago Metro president Mr Rodrigo Azócar at its Bessain plant in northern Spain.
ONTARIO's Ministry of Transportation announced on October 30 that it has appointed former Canadian transport minister Mr David Collenette as its special advisor for high-speed rail to develop options for HSR on the Toronto - London - Windsor corridor.
THE first of two Alstom H3 hybrid locomotives ordered by Audi for shunting operations at its Ingolstadt automotive plant in Bavaria entered service on October 30.
FRENCH railfreight operator Fret SNCF is to carry out a further series of trials with 1000m-long freight trains with the aim of building on the three-year EU-funded Marathon project, which concluded in 2014.
MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries has delivered the first of three six-car 2020 series rubber-tyred metro trains to Saitama New Urban Transit for use on its Ina Line New Shuttle automated guideway transit (AGT) line in the Tokyo suburbs.
THE management board of Warsaw metro has selected preferred bidders for contracts to construct the two second phase extensions of metro Line M2, which have a combined length of 6.5km.
VOSSLOH confirmed on October 29 that it is close to reaching an agreement on the disposal of its Vossloh Rail Vehicles business unit and announced a 6% increase in group sales in the first nine months of 2015.
SIEMENS has fabricated the first bodyshell at its Krefeld plant in Germany for the fleet of 30 five-car class 707 Desiro City suburban EMUs ordered last year by rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains on behalf of British train operator South West Trains (SWT).
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