TURKISH State Railways (TCDD) has awarded a contract to Siemens for seven 300km/h trains for operation on its growing high-speed network.
CSR Corporation subsidiary CSR Nanjing Puzhen has secured a contract to supply 33 six-car type B metro trains for Shenzhen Line 3.
LUXEMBOURG Railways (CFL) has unveiled the first of eight Stadler Kiss double-deck emus, which were ordered in 2010 at a cost of €64m.
KAZAKHSTAN Railways (KTZ) subsidiary Passazhirskie Perevozki has awarded Talgo and its local joint venture Tuplar-Talgo a €482m contract to supply 603 coaches for long-distance services.
SIEMENS has announced that it will withdraw from bidding for the tender to supply 60 10-car emus for the Crossrail project in London. This leaves Bombardier, CAF and Hitachi in the running to win the £1bn contract, which should be awarded next year.
THE first light rail line was officially opened on July 4 in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city with a population of around 900,000. Commercial services were due to begin on July 5.
THE funding arrangements have been announced for the PPP deal for Siemens to supply 1140 emu cars for Britain's Thameslink project.
SINGAPORE Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (SMRT) has awarded a contract worth more than Yen 8bn ($US 80.5m) to Toshiba, Japan, to re-equip a fleet of 66 six-car metro trains with permanent-magnet synchronous traction motors.
A report by the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry into the competitiveness of the European railway supply industry says that more coordinated, long-term R&D is needed so that the European Union (EU) can maintain its competitiveness in the global railway supply industry.
WARSAW Tramways invites bids by July 22 for a fleet of 30 low-floor unidirectional LRVs, with ac traction equipment and microprocessor control.
