WIENER Linien has awarded Siemens a contract to supply 34 driverless metro trains for Vienna’s U-Bahn network.

CHINA Railway Investment Corporation (CRIC), the procurement arm of China Railway Corporation (CRC) has awarded CRRC Sifang a contract to supply 10 160km/h EMUs for services to Beijing’s new international airport at Daxing.

THE Sagami Railway in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture has taken delivery of its first 10-car 20000 series EMU from Hitachi.

TRANSPENNINE Express (TPE) and CAF have released the first image of the new Civity UK EMUs under construction in Spain for the British franchise operator.

PAULISTA Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM) has finally signed a Reais 316.7m ($US 101.6m) contract with a consortium of CRRC Sifang and Brazilian company Temoinsa to supply eight eight-car trains for the Line 13, which will connect Safira station with São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport.

Recent legislation has brought Germany into line with the recast of the First Railway Package, but a report published last month by the country’s antitrust watchdog suggests the government is not doing enough to foster competition, as Keith Barrow explains.

LIMA Metro has awarded a €2.1m two-year contract to a consortium of Catalunya Railways (FGC) and Spanish consultant engineering company Ardanuy to supervise infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance on Line 1.

THE first sleeping cars being supplied by CAF to Serco Caledonian Sleepers, Britain, under a £150m contract have arrived at the Velim test centre in the Czech Republic in preparation for testing.

LONDON Underground (LU) has awarded a £112.1m contract to Bombardier to refit its fleet of 85 eight-car Central line trains with new ac traction motors and control equipment.

EIGHT Auckland Transport (AT) DMUs together with spare parts are being shipped from New Zealand to Mozambique to operate commuter rail services in Maputo.