BRITISH passenger operator Great Western Railway (GWR) has awarded Voith a contract to carry out major cooling system overhauls on its fleet of class 43 HST power cars, which are used on inter-city services from London to South Wales and southwest England.
THE first LRV to be assembled on Alstom's new €15m Citadis LRV production line at Taubaté in the Brazilian state of São Paulo was officially unveiled on October 21 and is now undergoing tests on the newly-commissioned test track at the facility.
BRITAIN's rail minister Ms Claire Perry opened the new £7m National Training Academy for Rail in Northampton on October 20.
AMSTED Rail is developing new designs of components to produce a bogie to meet the demand from Australian heavy-haul freight railways for 45-tonne axleload freight wagons, or even 50-tonne axleloads in the future.
SIEMENS announced on October 20 that it is investing around €30m in a new assembly plant for light rail vehicles in Turkey.
LOMBARDY regional councillor for infrastructure and mobility Mr Alessandro Sorte announced on October 16 that the regional council will invest €68.2m in additional new trains for the Trenord joint venture between North Milan Railways (FNM) and Trenitalia.
THE first of eight 42.1m-long Variobahn low-floor LRVs being supplied by Stadler Pankow for the light rail network in Bergen arrived at the Norwegian city's port on October 19.
TEST running is underway with three 200km/h tilting sets which Talgo is supplying to Russian Railways (RZD) with a view to placing them in service on the Berlin – Moscow route next year.
TRINITYRAIL Asset Management, United States, has agreed an extension to its alliance with equipment finance specialist Element Financial Corporation under which Element will purchase leased freight wagons worth $US 1bn between 2016 and 2019.
THE first of 38 low-floor LRVs being supplied to Izmir by the Eurotem joint venture of Hyundai Rotem and Turkish State Railways (TCDD) subsidiary Tüvsaş was presented to the mayor of Izmir Mr Aziz Kocaoglu at the company's plant at Adapazari in northwest Turkey on October 14.
