POLISH infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded a consortium of Bombardier (ZWUS) Poland, Thales Poland, and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) a Zlotys 470m ($US 153m) contract for the country's first commercial ERTMS Level 2 installation.
SPAIN's Minister for Public Works and Transport has unveiled the first details of the country's plan to extend standard-gauge track from Barcelona to Valencia and the southeast along the Mediterranean coast line.
BRITAIN's infrastructure manager Network Rail has placed signalling contracts valued at £34.75m with Signalling Solutions, the British joint venture of Alstom and Balfour Beatty.
MTR Corporation has awarded two contracts to supply rolling stock and signalling systems for the Shatin – Central Link (SCL), which will establish a new north – south corridor across Hong Kong.
DANISH State Railways (DSB) and AnsaldoBreda have agreed a final delivery schedule for the troubled IC2 and IC4 inter-city dmu fleets, which were ordered as long ago as 2000 and due to enter service in 2003.
THE Greenbrier Companies has rejected American Railcar Industries bid of around $US 543m for the company describing the offer as "inadequate" and one that "grossly undervalues the company and is not the best interest of Greenbrier stockholders."
GREATER Braunschweig Regional Rail Vehicles (RGB), a company set up in spring 2012 to procure trains for use on the rail network in the Braunschweig area, has placed a €100m order with Alstom for 20 four-car Coradia emus.
FOLLOWING a four-year investigation, the French competition authority has fined French National Railways (SNCF) €60.9m for anti-competitive practices following a string of complaints raised by open-access railfreight operators in 2008 and 2009.
A ceremony was held on December 16 to mark the delivery of the first of nine Stadler emus for Lower Austria Transport Company (Növog), which will use the trains on the 760mm-gauge line between St Pölten and Mariazell.
SEVEN years after construction began, Bilbao – San Sebastian EuskoTren services started using the new 4km tunnel beneath the town of Durango on December 17.
