THE first Italian-built class 802 inter-city trains for British operator Great Western Railway was unveiled at Hitachi Rail Italy's Pistoia plant on February 9.
AROUND 10 years after their delivery to EAV in Naples, 21 of 26 three-car ETR 211 Metrostar EMUs supplied by the AnsaldoBreda-Firema Trasporti consortium are back in service on the Circumvesuviana narrow-gauge network.
ERFURT Transport Authority (Evag), Germany, has issued a call for tender for the supply of 14 articulated trams with an option for another 10.
THE board of Brussels Transport Company (Stib) has selected Bombardier as preferred bidder for a framework contract to supply up to 170 low-floor LRVs, with an initial order for 60 vehicles worth €169m (excluding VAT).
SPAIN’s national operator Renfe has awarded a €107m contract to Talgo to convert 13 series 7 overnight trains into 330km/h day trains.
HAMBURG Hochbahn (HH) has issued a call for tender for the supply between 120 and 200 metro cars of two types for operation on the new Line U5 and the existing lines U1-U4.
THE board of Austria’s Zillertal Railway has opted for hydrogen trains as an alternative to electrification of its 32km narrow-gauge line from Jenbach on the Innsbruck - Salzburg main line to the Tyrolean ski resort of Mayrhofen.
WÜRZURG City Council has approved a plan to replace the city’s entire fleet of 41 trams with new low-floor vehicles.
UNITED Wagon Company (UWC), Russia, has begun delivery of an order for 30 nitric acid tank wagons for Uralchem, one of Russia’s largest producers of mineral fertilisers.
AN agreement has been reached between all major parties in the Danish parliament to go ahead with the procurement of up to 150 electric trains, which will form the backbone of the country’s future main line rolling stock fleet.
