EGYPT's Ministry of Transport has invited expressions of interest for the acquisition of a fleet of 13 trains for the Cairo metro and a consultant to advise on the introduction of a new fares policy designed to increase revenue.

BOMBARDIER has announced it will supply four additional Bombardier Flexity low-floor LRVs for Australia's Gold Coast Light Rail Transit (GCLRT) network.

GLASGOW City Council announced on November 26 that it is looking to develop a tram-train link to connect Glasgow city centre and Paisley with Glasgow Airport, which could be operational within a decade.

SIX years after Botswana Railways (BR) became a freight-only operation, the country's president Mr Ian Khama has announced plans to restore passenger services from Francistown in the north of the country to the capital Gaborone and Lobatse on the South African border from next March.

THE City of Edmonton confirmed on November 25 that it has selected the TransEd Partners consortium as preferred bidder for the PPP contract to design, build, operate, maintain and finance the city's Valley Line LRT project.

RITES, India, has completed a detailed project report for a light metro line in the Indian city of Agra, which will serve key historical sites including Agra Fort, the tomb of Akbar the Great, and the Taj Mahal.

MORE than 120 software developers, designers and entrepreneurs from around the world joined together last weekend for Hacktrain, a 48-hour onboard "hackathon" with the goal of developing new innovations to benefit the British railway industry.

TRENITALIA's latest-generation high-speed train the Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 1000) set a new Italian rail speed record on November 26, when one of the eight-car sets reached 389km/h during nocturnal testing on the Milan - Turin high-speed line.

THE first trial runs with passengers on the 28km Porto Maravilha light rail network took place on November 21, when the mayor of Rio de Janeiro Mr Eduardo Paes boarded an Alstom tram for trip over the city centre section of the line.