SWITZERLAND's Appenzell Railways (AB) has awarded Stadler Rail a SFr 36m ($US 37.6m) contract to supply four four-car metre-gauge EMUs for the 32.1km Gossau - Wasserauen line.
BAY Area Rapid Transit (Bart) is starting dynamic testing of the first of 775 Fleet of the Future metro cars being built by Bombardier under a $US 2.5bn contract following arrival of the first car in San Francisco on April 6.
CRRC Nanjing Puzhen has awarded Škoda Electric and its Chinese joint venture company Škoda Kingway Electric a contract to supply electrical equipment for a fleet of 18 low-floor LRVs being built for Suzhou Line 2.
TOSHIBA, Japan, has announced plans to build a factory in Hyderabad, India, to manufacture power conversion and train control systems.
ALSTOM has completed its buyout of the remaining 51% share in South African train refurbishment specialist CTLE (Commuter Transport & Locomotive Engineering), previously known as Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW), from CTE (Commuter Transport Engineering) and Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) which remain shareholders.
VOITH has fitted a British class 158 DMU with two DiwaRail hydro-mechanical transmissions in a trial project with leasing company Angel Trains and operator Arriva Trains Wales.
THE first of eight Vossloh electro-diesel Citylink tram-trains ordered by Mid-Saxony transport authority VMS entered service in the Chemnitz area on April 4. Initially the vehicles are only operating on DB Network infrastructure as BoStrab certification for use on the CVAG-owned Chemnitz city tram network has not yet been completed.
LEASING company Alpha Trains announced on March 31 that it has acquired 89 Alstom regional multiple units from Société Anonyme de Crédit à l'Industrie Francaise and SNC Vindelica, two indirectly-owned subsidiaries of Société Générale, for an undisclosed sum.
MILAN Transport (ATM) announced on March 29 that it will exercise an option with Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly AnsaldoBreda) for 15 additional Leonardo trains for metro Line M2.
THE Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (JU) has received 43 proposals with total requested funding of €80m for its first call for 15 topics for which only €26.1m is available, while the 27 Shift2Rail members have requested €63m for their 13 reserved topics to which they will contribute €80m.
