EUROTUNNEL inaugurated its new GSM-R network for the Channel Tunnel on September 29 following the completion of a €48m, six-year project.
BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) announced on September 29 that Arriva Cross Country has secured a three-year direct award contract to continue operating the Cross Country franchise from October 2016 until October 2019.
ITALIAN State Railways (FS) plans to invest €94bn to modernise the railway and to double its turnover during the next 10 years according to its 2017-2026 strategic business plan which was unveiled in Rome on September 28.
THE 120th and final M5000 LRV for Manchester’s Metrolink light rail network left Bombardier’s plant in Vienna on September 27 on the first leg of its journey to Britain.
MITSUBISHI Electric announced on September 28 that it has been awarded a contract by CRRC Qingdao Sifang to supply electrical equipment for 93 eight-car trains being built by the Chinese supplier for MTR Corporation, Hong Kong.
KNORR-BREMSE announced on September 28 that it plans to buy out its partner in its ICER Rail joint venture to expand its presence in the train braking friction materials market.
AN agreement was signed on September 23 allocating Zlotys 1.82bn ($US 470m) in European Union funding towards the construction of the two second-phase extensions of Warsaw’s east-west metro Line M2, which have a total length of 6.5km.
GE Transportation CEO Mrs Jamie Miller joined Ukraine’s minister of infrastructure Mr Volodymyr Omelyan and Ukrainian Railways (UZ) board member for operations Mr Ireneusz Wasilewski at Kiev Passazhyrsky station on September 28 for a demonstration of a GE T33A diesel locomotive.
STADLER Pankow has awarded Faiveley Transport a contract to supply heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for the next-generation Berlin S-Bahn trains ordered by DB Regio subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin in December 2015.
HITACHI Rail Europe confirmed on September 28 that it has submitted a joint bid with Bombardier for the contract to supply up to 3300 metro cars in London Underground’s New Tube for London Programme.
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